Trial reportJournal of applied behavior analysis2018
Prevalence of resurgence of destructive behavior when thinning reinforcement schedules during functional communication training.
Trial report in Journal of applied behavior analysis, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05790668 (Motivational Refinements for Facilitating Reinforcement Schedule Thinning), which is not on this map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Motivational Refinements for Facilitating Reinforcement Schedule Thinning
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- On the prevalence and magnitude of resurgence during delay-and-denial tolerance teaching.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2025Pooled it
- Additivity of resurgence and spontaneous recovery.Learning & behavior · 2026Article
- Human-operant evaluation of synthesized alternative reinforcement and resurgence.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Article
- Using Wearable Technology to Predict the Occurrence of Severe Behavior Problems among Neurodiverse Individuals: A Systematic Review.Perspectives on behavior science · 2026Review
- The Effects of Quality of Reinforcement on the Resurgence of Responding.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Impact of Teaching Multiple Responses on Resurgence of Target Behavior and Persistence of Alternative Responding.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Chaining Differential Reinforcement of Compliance and Functional Communication Training to Treat Challenging Behavior Maintained by Negative Reinforcement.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Discriminative properties of reinforcers modulate resurgence: A human-operant demonstration.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Article
- A scoping review of consecutive controlled case series studies.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2025Article
- Resurgence of Severe Challenging Behavior and Schedule Thinning with the Terminal Schedule Probe Method.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Need to Distinguish between "Lapse" and "Relapse".Perspectives on behavior science · 2025Article
- Understanding and Reacting to Relapse: Considerations for Practitioners.Behavior analysis in practice · 2025Review
- Different criteria affect prevalence of relapse of behavior targeted for treatment.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2025Article
- Characterization and Outcomes of Profoundly and Non-profoundly Autistic Individuals Admitted to a Specialized Psychiatric Inpatient Unit.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Resurgence mitigation across extended extinction following four and eight cycles of on/off alternative reinforcement.Behavioural processes · 2024Article
- Examination of clinical variables affecting resurgence: A reanalysis of 46 applications.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Article
- Resurgence of destructive behavior following decreases in alternative reinforcement: A prospective analysis.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Article
- Resurgence Following Higher or Lower Quality Alternative Reinforcement.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- Updated Recommendations for Reinforcement Schedule Thinning following Functional Communication Training.Behavior analysis in practice · 2024Review
- Further evidence of renewal in automatically maintained behavior.Journal of applied behavior analysis · 2024Article
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Abstract
Functional communication training is a well-established treatment for socially reinforced destructive behavior that typically includes differential reinforcement of the functional communication response (FCR) in combination with extinction of destructive behavior. However, when the schedule of reinforcement for the FCR is thinned, destructive behavior may resurge (e.g., Greer, Fisher, Saini, Owen, & Jones, 2016). Currently, data are unavailable on the prevalence and characteristics of resurgence during reinforcement schedule thinning. In this study, we evaluated the prevalence of resurgence during reinforcement schedule thinning on a per-case and per-schedule-step basis and also evaluated the magnitude of resurgence in relation to the functions of destructive behavior. We observed resurgence in 19 of the 25 (76%) applications of reinforcement schedule thinning. In some cases, the magnitude of resurgence exceeded the mean levels of destructive behavior observed in baseline. We discuss these results relative to prior translational and applied research on resurgence.
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