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Increasing item engagement and decreasing automatically reinforced problem behavior within a modified competing stimulus assessment
Author(s) -
Leif Erin S.,
Roscoe Eileen M.,
Ahearn William H.,
Rogalski Jacqueline P.,
Morrison Heather
Publication year - 2020
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.695
Subject(s) - reinforcement , psychology , stimulus control , differential reinforcement , stimulus (psychology) , developmental psychology , token economy , clinical psychology , applied psychology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , nicotine
A competing stimulus assessment (CSA) is commonly used to identify leisure items for use in treatments designed to decrease automatically reinforced problem behavior. However, this type of assessment may not yield useful information if participants do not readily engage with leisure items. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a modified CSA that included additional treatment components (i.e., prompting, prompting plus differential reinforcement of alternative behavior). The modified CSA identified the treatment components and leisure items that were most effective for increasing leisure‐item engagement and decreasing problem behavior for each participant. Modified CSA outcomes maintained during an extended treatment analysis in a natural setting and when intervention components were faded.