The Effectiveness of a Behavioral Treatment to Increase In-Home Compliance of an Adopted Adolescent Boy with Multiple Psychiatric Diagnoses

• Published in: Behavioral development bulletin (Philadelphia, Pa.) Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 36 - 41
• Main Authors: Moore, Shannon P, Golden, Jeannie A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Joseph D. Cautilli 2009; Development & Behavior Analysis Special Interest Group of the Association for Behavior Analysis
• Subjects: Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity; Behavior Modification; Behavior Therapy; Comorbidity; Compliance; Human; Intellectual Development Disorder; Male; Oppositional Defiant Disorder; Prompting; Reinforcement; Task Analysis; Treatment Effectiveness Evaluation; ADHD; monetary reinforcement; prompting; behavioral treatment; task analysis; ODD; sequencing

This article describes a study in which a 13-year-old adopted adolescent boy who had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and borderline intellectual functioning was taught to take personal responsibility for completing tasks by do...