Comparing the Detection Accuracy of Operational Definitions and Pinpoints

Kubina, Richard M.; Halkowski, Madeline; Yurich, Kirsten K. L.; Ghorm, Kimberly; Healy, Nora M.

doi:10.1007/s10864-022-09485-2

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“…Additionally, future work should continue to examine how differences in the way we define and quantify relapse in terms of the number of prechange and postchange sessions and analytic methods (e.g., log proportion rate of response) might represent a source of heterogeneity within this literature. Future researchers may also consider analyzing renewal based on the topography of behavior (though this could prove challenging because operational definitions likely vary greatly; Kubina et al, 2022). Additionally, research exploring the conditional effectiveness of treatment approaches that inoculate against renewal (and other forms of relapse) should examine automatically maintained challenging behavior with the knowledge that there is complexity in these outcomes related to the heterogeneous nature of this functional class of behavior and apparent subtype‐specific differences with respect to response to treatment and renewal characteristics.…”

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Further evidence of renewal in automatically maintained behavior

Falligant,

Kranak,

Piersma

et al. 2024

J of App Behav Analysis

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Renewal is a relapse phenomenon that refers to the recurrence of a previously reduced behavior following a change in stimulus conditions. Muething et al. (2022) examined the phenomenology of renewal among individuals with automatically maintained challenging behavior treated at an outpatient clinic. We replicated their findings by retrospectively examining renewal across various topographies of automatically maintained behavior treated at an inpatient hospital, and we extended their work by also examining differences across subtypes of automatically maintained self‐injurious behavior. The prevalence of renewal was comparable to that observed by Muething et al., supporting the notion that automatically maintained challenging behavior is susceptible to relapse phenomena. Furthermore, renewal was twice as likely to occur for individuals with Subtype 2 versus Subtype 1 self‐injurious behavior, providing additional evidence of behavioral differentiation between subtypes. Our findings suggest that even after apparent stability in treatment, practitioners should remain vigilant for the recurrence of automatically maintained behavior during generalization.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%