Unsung Pioneers

Hilsheimer, George von

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“…In 1967, von Hilsheimer published IS THERE A SCIENCE OF BEHAVIOR ? This book reviews particularly the success of replication therapies among the behavior therapies.…”

Section: Biofeedback In Prodromeless Psychosis: Can You Fix Patients ...mentioning

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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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“…In 1967, von Hilsheimer published IS THERE A SCIENCE OF BEHAVIOR ? This book reviews particularly the success of replication therapies among the behavior therapies.…”

Section: Biofeedback In Prodromeless Psychosis: Can You Fix Patients ...mentioning

confidence: 99%