Assessment and treatment of automatically reinforced self‐induced emesis. Issue 2 (8th February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wunderlich, Kara L.; Vollmer, Timothy R.; Zabala, Karla A.
• Is Part Of: Journal of applied behavior analysis. Volume 50:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 418
• Page End: 423
• Publication Date: 2017-02-08
• Subjects: behavioral processes -- emesis -- fidelity -- integrity -- intellectual disability -- response blocking -- traumatic brain injury -- vomiting; Psychology, Applied -- Periodicals; Social Behavior -- Periodicals; 150
• DOI: 10.1002/jaba.371
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0021-8855

Abstract

Abstract : Frequent emesis can cause substantial deleterious effects to a child's health and environment. We conducted a functional analysis of a 3‐year‐old girl's self‐induced emesis and confirmed that emesis was maintained by automatic reinforcement. In a reversal design, we evaluated the efficacy of implementing response blocking at 100% and 50% treatment integrity levels on both attempts and successful production of emesis. One hundred percent blocking, but not 50% blocking, was successful in reducing attempts and emesis below baseline levels.