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Further evidence of renewal in automatically maintained behavior
John Michael Falligant1,2, Michael P Kranak3,4, Drew E Piersma1
1Department of Behavioral Psychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
|January 19, 2024
Summary
Renewal, a relapse in behavior, can recur after treatment. This study found renewal in challenging behaviors, especially in self-injurious behavior subtypes, highlighting the need for ongoing vigilance.
Area of Science:
- Behavioral Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Applied Behavior Analysis
Background:
- Renewal is a relapse phenomenon where behavior recurs after treatment.
- Previous research examined renewal in outpatient settings for challenging behaviors.
- Automatically maintained behaviors pose unique challenges due to their intrinsic reinforcement.
Purpose of the Study:
- To replicate and extend findings on the phenomenology of renewal in automatically maintained challenging behavior.
- To investigate renewal in an inpatient hospital setting across various behavior topographies.
- To examine differences in renewal prevalence between subtypes of automatically maintained self-injurious behavior.
Main Methods:
- Retrospective analysis of behavioral data from an inpatient hospital.
- Examination of renewal across diverse topographies of automatically maintained behavior.
- Comparative analysis of renewal in Subtype 1 versus Subtype 2 self-injurious behavior.
Main Results:
- The prevalence of renewal was comparable to previous outpatient findings.
- Automatically maintained challenging behavior demonstrated susceptibility to relapse phenomena.
- Renewal occurred twice as frequently in Subtype 2 compared to Subtype 1 self-injurious behavior.
Conclusions:
- Findings support the susceptibility of automatically maintained challenging behavior to renewal.
- Behavioral differentiation exists between subtypes of self-injurious behavior regarding renewal.
- Practitioners must remain vigilant for behavior recurrence during generalization, even after treatment stability.
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