Creeping Reification

Hilsheimer, George von

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“…That is we included discontinuous and contingent training of the GSR at the same time we were using the EEG to train SMR. Von Hilsheimer's (1971, 1973) examination of the records after Quirk's death indicates that every single felon who received EEG training had first been trained in the SCARS method of GSR training. Aside from a few pilot cases where rather weak effects were achieved, we did not perform a formal investigation of the effects of SMR training alone on criminality.…”

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Origin of EEG biofeedback for remediating misbehavior.

Hilsheimer¹,

Quirk²

2006

The Behavior Analyst Today

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In the 1960s, behavior therapy techniques were emerging from the laboratory. These techniques were proving successful in changing a variety of behavioral problems. In the area of psychiatric rehabilitation, Quirk learned to apply Mary Cover Jones' method of desensitization to psychotics despite Wolpe's self-reported inability to make Reciprocal Inhibition Therapy (RIT) work with psychotics. Von Hilsheimer suggested that he monitor stress by Galvanic Skin Resistance (GSR) and Quirk developed a library of lanternslides to substitute for verbal statements in the Wolpe hierarchies of stressful stimuli. He automated this method and named it. SCARS (Stimulus Conditioned Autonomic Response Suppression). This method was later used in offender rehabilation with correctional populations. This paper reviews this history. Quirk then applied the same methods and Sterman's EEG biofeedback training (increasing SMR at C-3/C-4) in a pilot study of 40 matched pairs of jailed felons at the Ontario Correctional Institute (OCI) near Toronto, Canada; and in a larger pilot study of 110 matched pairs. From 1970 through 1995 Quirk and von Hilsheimer trained 2776 felons at the OCI by this combined method (temperature, GSR and EEG). 15% were rearrested in the 3 years following release. This compares well to the range of re-arrest in studies summarized by Alter et al (1996) -42 % to 78%. This line of research represents an early beginning to the field of applied behavioral neurology and the work has strong implications for behavior analysts treating offenders today.

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Origin of EEG biofeedback for remediating misbehavior.

Hilsheimer¹,

Quirk²

2006

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Forness

1987

Remedial and Special Education

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Kosc's response to our work provides a good example of the complex problems encountered when one attempts to define learning disabilities. Although his approach to an a priori definition of the terms "learning" and "disability" is appealing in its simplicity, it is clear that such terms do not lend themselves to such easy explanation. His narrow interpretation of disability from an "anatomico-physiological" viewpoint further clouds the issue. Kosc apparently fails to recognize that analysis of the definitional problem in learning disabilities goes far beyond the historical imperative of the Strauss and Werner paradigm to more substantial problems that seriously impede scientific progress in the LDfield. K O S C ' S P A P E R O N learning disability ( L D ) definition, which appeared in R A S E 8:1, p r o v i d e s valuable insights i n t o t h e p r o b l e m s i n h e r e n t in defining L D . Alt h o u g h w e find m u c h t o agree with, w e also n o t e p o i n t s o f disagreement w i t h Kosc's analysis. W e w o u l d like t o take this o p p o r t u n i t y t o outline o u r reaction in t h e h o p e t h a t it, like Kosc's paper, will b e p r o v o c a t i v e a n d constructive.

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Creeping Reification

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Origin of EEG biofeedback for remediating misbehavior.

Origin of EEG biofeedback for remediating misbehavior.

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