Spoon Distance Fading with and without Escape Extinction as Treatment for Food Refusal

Autor/inn/en	Rivas, Kristi D.; Piazza, Cathleen C.; Patel, Meeta R.; Bachmeyer, Melanie H.
Titel	Spoon Distance Fading with and without Escape Extinction as Treatment for Food Refusal
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 43 (2010) 4, S.673-683 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-8855
Schlagwörter	Eating Habits; Eating Disorders; Behavior Problems; Children; Outcomes of Treatment; Behavior Modification; Food; Reinforcement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ernährungsgewohnheit; Essgewohnheit; Appetite disorder; Essstörung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Behaviour modification; Verhaltensänderung; Lebensmittel; Positive Verstärkung
Abstract	Little is known about the characteristics of meals that serve as motivating operations (MOs) for escape behavior. In the current investigation, we showed that the distance at which a therapist held a spoon from a child's lips served as an MO for escape behavior. Based on these results, we implemented spoon distance fading, compared fading with and without escape extinction (EE), and compared fading plus EE to EE alone. Initially, inappropriate mealtime behavior decreased during fading, but this effect was not maintained as fading progressed. Inappropriate mealtime behavior was lower initially when we combined fading and EE relative to EE alone, but acceptance increased more rapidly with EE than with fading plus EE. These results suggest that a number of mealtime characteristics might function as MOs for escape behavior and that analyses of MOs may be useful for developing treatments for food refusal. (Contains 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10