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  • Title: Using pretreatment and posttreatment assessments to enhance and evaluate existing treatment packages.
    Author: Richman DM, Berg WK, Wacker DP, Stephens T, Rankin B, Kilroy J.
    Journal: J Appl Behav Anal; 1997; 30(4):709-12. PubMed ID: 9433796.
    Abstract:
    Pretreatment assessment data were used to enhance an existing treatment package to reduce aggression and to increase positive social interactions between a young boy and his peers. Based on the results of pretreatment assessments, additional reinforcement (differential reinforcement of alternative behavior with adult attention) and punishment (performing a nonpreferred task during time-out) components were added to an existing nonresetting differential reinforcement of other behavior (access to peers unless aggression occurred) plus time-out procedure. A posttreatment component analysis of the additional treatment components indicated that the reinforcement component facilitated positive social interactions and the punishment component suppressed aggression towards peers.
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