Treatment of assaultive hair pulling in a multihandicapped youth
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- Vol. 10 (3) , 335-342
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02408292
Abstract
The course of treatment for hair pulling in a moderately retarded, visually impaired 9-year-old male is described along with the effectiveness of an ammonia inhalation procedure to eliminate this behavior. However, before discovering this successful procedure, other well-known techniques such as DRO, TO, overcorrection, and shaping all failed. Since rapid treatment effectiveness could be assumed to be the norm, given the operant literature, the extensive course of treatment reported here serves to document that perseverance may also be a necessary component of successful behavior management strategies.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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