title: Development of self-care skills and helping behaviors of adolescents in a group home through correspondence training.
abstract: The present study used a do-report correspondence training procedure to develop self-care skills and helping behaviors among adolescents of a group home. Points were delivered contingent upon true reports about behaviors (self-care skills and helping behaviors) performed earlier. Two multiple-baseline designs (across behaviors and across groups) were employed. The results showed increased levels of self-care skills and helping behaviors (the corresponding nonverbal behaviors) during reinforcement of true reports, relative to baseline conditions. These levels were maintained during the introduction of a follow-up (maintenance) phase, in which subjects were exposed to similar procedures of correspondence training but with no reinforcement contingencies for truthful reports about prior behaviors.
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006379:Helping Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012112:Residential Facilities; D014342:Truth Disclosure