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Programming Treatment Effects to the Natural Environment

A Procedure for Training Institutionalized Retarded Adults

University, of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

Teresa Earnhart

Parslow State School and Hospital

Four adult females in the moderate to severe range of retardation were compared on two social learning oriented behavioral training packages. Treatment involved self-monitoring, information feedback, modeling, role-playing, and social reinforcement provided in daily training sessions on the ward or in a therapy room, with the degree and time information feedback was given varying across treatment conditions. An analysis of results showed that onward training was necessary for correct performance of target behaviors (e.g., talking too loudly, pestering staff) in the natural environment. Once target behaviors had been decelerated for several days, gains were found to maintain by prompting subjects on the ward, without the necessity of training sessions in the "therapy room."

Behavior Modification, Vol. 5, No. 1, 27-37 (1981)
DOI: 10.1177/014544558151003


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