Reinforcement-Based Reductive Procedures: Training and Monitoring Performance of Institutional Staff.

Repp, Alan C.; Deitz, Diane E. D.

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ERIC Number: EJ214355

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Publication Date: 1979-Oct

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Reinforcement-Based Reductive Procedures: Training and Monitoring Performance of Institutional Staff.

Repp, Alan C.; Deitz, Diane E. D.

Mental Retardation, v17 n5 p221-26 Oct 1979

The paper presents guidelines for training staff to implement positive reductive procedures to decrease undesirable behaviors of their retarded students and clients. Considerations relevant to all reductive procedures are briefly discussed in the first portion of the paper, while guidelines indigenous to positive reductive procedures are discussed in the second portion. (Author)

Descriptors: Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Guidelines, Mental Retardation, Operant Conditioning, Reinforcement

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Audience: Practitioners

Language: English

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