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Errorless Acquiescence Training

A Potential "Keystone" Approach to Building Peer Interaction Skills in Children With Severe Problem Behavior

University of Toronto and Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, jducharme{at}oise.utoronto.ca

Anthony Folino

University of Toronto

Janine DeRosie

Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto

Errorless acquiescence training (EAT) was developed as a graduated, success-focused, and short-term intervention for building social skills. The approach focuses on building the skill of acquiescence (i.e., teaching children to be flexible with the needs and will of peers). The authors predict that acquiescence would serve as a keystone, that is, a skill that when trained produces widespread improvements in child behavior, including reductions in antisocial behavior. The authors provide EAT to eight children referred to a clinical classroom for severe antisocial behavior. Consistent with errorless paradigms, key intervention components present at the initiation of intervention are systematically faded at a slow enough rate to ensure continued prosocial interactions throughout and following treatment. Children demonstrate substantial increases in acquiescent responding and other prosocial behavior as well as covariant reductions in antisocial behaviors. Acquiescence is discussed in terms of its potential as a keystone for prosocial responding in children with antisocial behavior.

Key Words: child treatment • social skills training • antisocial behavior • school-based intervention

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