Response-contingent taste-aversion in treating chronic ruminative vomiting of institutionalised profoundly retarded children.
Two case studies are presented describing the use of response-contingent taste-aversion procedures to treat chronic ruminative vomiting of profoundly retarded children. Each treatment programme was designed to be carried out by para-professional staff in an institutional setting. Each programme eliminated rumination, with effects maintained one to nine months following treatment. For one subject who exhibited major weight-loss prior to intervention, substantial weight-gain was also demonstrated.
D000293:Adolescent; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002674:Child, Institutionalized / Q000523:psychology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013649:Taste; D014839:Vomiting / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*