Long-Term Effects of a Simple Contingency Management Program with Chronic Psychiatric Patients

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Abstract
Numerous reports have described effective group contingency behavioral programs, i.e., token economies. Due to staff shortages and legal restraints, many ward-wide programs are difficult to implement. The present study [on schizophrenics, mental retardates, highly aggressive individals and other psychotics] provided long-term data on a program which may avoid many current difficulties. Results indicate that the simple procedures carried out on a day-long schedule may have long-term beneficial effects on even the most regressed psychiatric patients.

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