Autisms Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are characterized by core symptoms (social
communication and restricted and repetitive behaviors) and related comorbidities, including …

Chronic pain (CP) and opioid use disorder (OUD) remain challenging complex public health
concerns. This is an updated review on the relationship between CP and OUD and the use …

Behavior Modification: What It Is and How to Do It is a comprehensive, practical presentation
of the principles of behavior modification and guidelines for their application. Appropriate for …

Through amendments to the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), federal law
mandated the use of functional behavioral assessments (FBA) and positive behavioral …

We manipulated relative reinforcement for problem behavior and appropriate behavior using
differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) without an extinction component …

We compared the effects of positive reinforcement alone, escape extinction alone, and
positive reinforcement with escape extinction in the treatment of the food and fluid refusal of …

The objective of the current study was to compare the effects of sensory-integration therapy
(SIT) and a behavioral intervention on rates of challenging behavior (including self-injurious …

Escape from instructional activities is a common maintaining variable for problem behavior
and a number of effective treatments have been developed for this function. Each of these …

Recently, nonmaternal center‐based child care has been linked to problem behavior in
young children (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2003). In …

Discontinuation of the contingency between a response and its reinforcer sometimes
produces a temporary increase in the response before its rate decreases, a phenomenon …