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Single-Case Experimental Designs for the Evaluation of Treatments for Self-Injurious and Suicidal Behaviors
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Rizvi, Shireen L.; Nock, Matthew K. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2008
Single-case experimental designs (SCEDs) provide a time- and cost-effective alternative to randomized clinical trials and offer significant advantages in terms of internal and external validity. A brief history and primer on SCEDs is provided, specifically for use in suicide intervention research. Various SCED methodologies, such as AB, ABAB,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Research Methodology, Suicide, Self Destructive Behavior
Understanding and Managing Self-Injurious Behavior.
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Zirpoli, Thomas J.; Lloyd, John Wills – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1987
The literature review looks at self-injurious behaviors in handicapped students in terms of characteristics, prevalence, etiology (biological, psychological, and as learned behavior), and management including extinction, positive punishment, negative punishment, and reinforcement of other behaviors. Problems in areas of management, administration,…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology
Experimental Analysis and Treatment of Multiply Controlled Self-Injury.
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Smith, Richard G.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1993
This study presents three cases of adults with profound developmental disabilities in which assessment data showed that self-injurious behavior occurred in at least two test conditions and describes a method used to analyze the effects of treatments based on hypotheses of multiple control. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Modification, Developmental Disabilities, Etiology
The Role of Attention in the Treatment of Attention-Maintained Self-Injurious Behavior: Noncontingent Reinforcement and Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior.
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Iwata, Brian A.; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1993
This study compared differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) and noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) in the reduction of self-injurious behavior in three adult females with severe or profound mental retardation. Both procedures were highly effective in reducing self-injury, with NCR less limited than DRO. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Attention, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems
Going "All Out" Pharmacologically? A Re-Examination of Berkman and Meyer's "Alternative Strategies and Multiple Outcomes in Remediation of Severe Self-Injury: Going 'All Out' Nonaversively."
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Linscheid, Thomas R.; Landau, Richard J. – Mental Retardation, 1993
A reevaluation of data from Berkman and Meyer (1988), a study supporting the effectiveness of positive-oriented programing approaches with persons with mental retardation, suggests that medication, especially the introduction of Thorazine (with subsequent increases of dosage), may have been related to reductions in the client's self-injurious…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Case Studies
What's Straw and What's Real: A Reply to Linscheid and Landau.
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Meyer, Luanna H.; Berkman, Karen A. – Mental Retardation, 1993
This response to a critique (EC 605 541) of the authors' case study, supporting the effectiveness of positive-oriented programing approaches with persons with mental retardation, offers follow-up information on the individual involved, including his complete medication history, and defends the view that the self-determination supported by their…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Case Studies