The use of habit reversal in reducing tics with two institutionalized individuals

The possible application of habit reversal to mentally ill institutional residents has not been investigated. While habit reversal holds considerable promise as a treatment mode, due to its rapid success and patient involvement in controlling his-her own behavior, further research is in order. To investigate the generality of habit reversal to an institutionalized population, the present study utilized self-monitoring, which has been found to be effective with hospitalized patients, and habit reversal, which has been found to be effective with a non-hospitalized population, as a treatment package for eliminating nervous tics. There are four major purposes for doing this present study: a) to see if modified habit reversal techniques could be used to successfully treat tics in institutionalised mental ill individuals, and in doing so look at; b) the effectiveness of procedures that involve the subject controlling his/her own behavior with that kind of population; c) To evaluate the within-in subject generality of the procedures by using a generalization measure in each subject’s living environment; and d) since Azrin and Nunn’s (1973) use of habit reversal was restricted to baseline-treatment (AB) replications, to provide an experimental analysis using a multiple baseline design.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Graduate School

Year dc:date.available

1976

Author dc:creator

• Williamson, Phyllis

Contributors dc:contributor

• John R. Lutzker

• Extinction (Psychology)
• Conditioned response
• Tic disorders
• Life Sciences
• Medicine and Health Sciences

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1922

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:uop_etds-2921