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Functional Communication Training With and Without Extinction and Punishment

Year: 1993

Type: article

Abstract: Functional communication training has been reported to be a promising treatment for severe behavior problems. In this study, functional communication training alone and combined with extinction and/or punishment was evaluated for 4 clients with severe retardation, behavior problems, and communication deficits. The participants were inpatients on a hospital unit for treatment of severe behavior disorders. They received individualized interventions based on functional assessment that included reinforcement of a communication response with the same function as their destructive behavior. Results showed that for some patients, functional communication training was not sufficient to produce clinically significant reductions in destructive behavior, and the combination of training plus punishment produced the largest and most consistent reductions.

Source: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

DOI: 10.1901/jaba.1993.26-23

Authors: Wayne Fisher, Cathleen Piazza, Michael Cataldo, Robert Harrell, Gretchen Jefferson, Robert Conner

Institutions: Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology

Language: English

Topic: Behavioral and Psychological Studies

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Public Health Service