title: Using pretreatment and posttreatment assessments to enhance and evaluate existing treatment packages.
abstract: Pretreatment assessment data were used to enhance an existing treatment package to reduce aggression and to increase positive social interactions between a young boy and his peers. Based on the results of pretreatment assessments, additional reinforcement (differential reinforcement of alternative behavior with adult attention) and punishment (performing a nonpreferred task during time-out) components were added to an existing nonresetting differential reinforcement of other behavior (access to peers unless aggression occurred) plus time-out procedure. A posttreatment component analysis of the additional treatment components indicated that the reinforcement component facilitated positive social interactions and the punishment component suppressed aggression towards peers.
authors.affiliation: University of Iowa, USA.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Richman
authors.forename: W K
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Berg
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Wacker
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Stephens
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rankin
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kilroy
mesh_terms: D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology*; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D012934:Social Isolation; D012951:Socialization; D016896:Treatment Outcome