The reduction of soiling behaviour in an 11-year-old boy with the parent as therapist.
An 11-year-old boy who had soiled daily for six years since entering school had threatened to commit suicide. Following an initial assessment, a parent was trained to monitor an experimental procedure that effectively reduced soiling to a level where the only occurrence noted in two months resulted from a bout of diarrhoea.
D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D004688:Encopresis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents