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A Treatment Package without Escape Extinction to Address Food Selectivity
Published on: August 21, 2015
Functional analysis and treatment of multiply controlled inappropriate mealtime behavior
Melanie H Bachmeyer1, Cathleen C Piazza, Laura D Fredrick
1Marcus Institute.
Abstract:
Functional analyses identified children whose inappropriate mealtime behavior was maintained by escape and adult attention. Function-based extinction procedures were tested individually and in combination. Attention extinction alone did not result in decreases in inappropriate mealtime behavior or a significant increase in acceptance. By contrast, escape extinction alone resulted in a decrease in inappropriate mealtime behavior and an increase in acceptance. However, inappropriate mealtime behavior did not decrease to clinically acceptable levels. A combined extinction technique (i.e., escape and attention extinction) resulted in a decrease in inappropriate mealtime behavior to clinically acceptable levels and high and stable acceptance.
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