The Effect of Non-Contingent Exercise on Purposeless Wandering and Self-Injury in a Man with a Profound Learning Difficulty
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
- Vol. 22 (1) , 99-102
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1352465800011851
Abstract
The introduction of a period of non-contingent exercise was found to have a differential effect on two challenging behaviours shown by a man with a profound learning disability. His rate of purposeless wandering was reduced, but initially there was an increase in his rate of self-injury. The implication of these results are considered with regard to the uses of ecological interventions.Keywords
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