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FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AND INTERVENTION FOR CHRONIC RUMINATION
Author(s) -
Woods Kathryn E.,
Luiselli James K.,
Tomassone Sha
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1002/jaba.24
Subject(s) - rumination , psychology , functional analysis , intervention (counseling) , reinforcement , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , cognition , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
We conducted a functional analysis and treatment evaluation of chronic rumination in a 19‐year‐old man with intellectual disabilities. Outcomes of the functional analysis suggested that rumination was maintained by automatic reinforcement. Results of the intervention evaluation suggested that (a) noncontingent access to food after meals reduced rumination more effectively than did noncontingent access to inedible stimuli, (b) a particular type of food was associated with lower levels of rumination than other types of food, and (c) both presession and continuous access to food reduced levels of rumination more effectively than did fixed‐time access to food.