{"title":"The immediate and long-term effectiveness of overcorrection in treating self-injurious behavior in a mentally retarded adult","authors":"Leslie F. Halpern, Frank Andrasik","doi":"10.1016/0270-3092(86)90018-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0270-3092(86)90018-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A brief positive practice overcorrection procedure was used as a method of eliminating head-banging in a profoundly mentally retarded adult. Treatment produced an immediate reduction in head-banging episodes, with near zero occurrence of behavior during the third phase of treatment. One year later data collection was resumed on the subject for an 11-week period. Data from the long-term follow-up revealed that head-banging continued to occur, but mean weekly levels of episodes (<em>M</em> = 5.8) were still well below those recorded during the baseline period (<em>M</em> = 18.8). The overcorrection procedure produced immediate short-term effects and, in this case, was also effective in the long-term. Variables related to the maintenance of response suppression are discussed with respect to this intervention's success.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77671,"journal":{"name":"Applied research in mental retardation","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 59-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0270-3092(86)90018-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15078757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Elson M. Bihm","doi":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80023-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80023-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77671,"journal":{"name":"Applied research in mental retardation","volume":"7 4","pages":"Pages 501-502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80023-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56142473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Training graduate students in parent conference skills","authors":"Glenn Hirsch, Karl Altman","doi":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80009-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80009-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Twelve graduate students were trained in three categories of parent conference skills: (1) communicating diagnostic information, (2) communicating recommendations, and (3) organizing the conference and interacting with parents. Training done individually with each student consisted of written programmed learning materials plus oral practice. Training effects were measured during role-play and actual parent conferences. Training effectiveness was assessed with a multiple baseline design across three skill categories. Eleven of 12 students exhibited significant skill acquisition and nine generalized skills to an actual parent conference. Professionals and parents of developmentally delayed children attested to the importance and effectiveness of the training program. Results demonstrated that parent conference skills can be operationalized, trained, and generalized to actual conferences.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77671,"journal":{"name":"Applied research in mental retardation","volume":"7 3","pages":"Pages 371-385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80009-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13575432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mother-infant engagements in dyads with handicapped and nonhandicapped infants: A pilot study","authors":"Paul J. Yoder, Dale C. Farran","doi":"10.1016/0270-3092(86)90017-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0270-3092(86)90017-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The purpose of this study was (a) to investigate the effect of a handicapping condition on mother-infant interactions and (b) to investigate the conditions under which coordinated attention to an object and a person is demonstrated. This study provides a unique opportunity to make across-mother and within-mother comparisons of mother-infant interactions in two sets of fraternal twins. In each set, one infant was handicapped whereas the other was nonhandicapped. Microanalyses of several aspects of mother-infant free-play sessions showed that handicapped infants emitted fewer object-directed behaviors, had fewer instances in which their leads were followed, and spent relatively little time in joint attention with mother. The data also suggest that repetitive sequences with an object may be an important context in which coordinated attention is demonstrated.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77671,"journal":{"name":"Applied research in mental retardation","volume":"7 1","pages":"Pages 51-58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0270-3092(86)90017-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14074712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest reviewers","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80025-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80025-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77671,"journal":{"name":"Applied research in mental retardation","volume":"7 4","pages":"Page 505"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80025-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92010014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brothers and sisters—A special part of exceptional familiesBy Thomas H. Powell and Peggy Ahrenhold Ogle. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks Publishing Company, 1985, 226 pp.","authors":"A. Marchetti","doi":"10.1016/0270-3092(86)90025-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0270-3092(86)90025-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77671,"journal":{"name":"Applied research in mental retardation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0270-3092(86)90025-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53603479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lawrence T. Stoddard , William J. McIlvane , Eloise C. McDonagh , Joanne B. Kledaras
{"title":"The use of picture programs in teaching direct care staff","authors":"Lawrence T. Stoddard , William J. McIlvane , Eloise C. McDonagh , Joanne B. Kledaras","doi":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80007-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80007-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Direct care staff were taught via picture programs to transfer nonambulatory, severely mentally retarded men between their beds and wheelchairs. Still color photographs illustrated essential details of the complex behavior sequences. Staff transferring performance improved markedly over that shown on a pretest. Study guide questions increased the effectiveness of the programs, perhaps because the questions encouraged accurate observation of the pictures. The procedures may suggest cost effective alternatives to traditional forms of inservice training.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77671,"journal":{"name":"Applied research in mental retardation","volume":"7 3","pages":"Pages 349-358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80007-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13575431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stewart Gabel , Ralph E. Tarter , Joan Gavaler , Andreas M. Hegedus , Wendy L. Golden , Beatrice Maier
{"title":"Neuropsychological capacity of prader-willi children: General and specific aspects of impairment","authors":"Stewart Gabel , Ralph E. Tarter , Joan Gavaler , Andreas M. Hegedus , Wendy L. Golden , Beatrice Maier","doi":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80018-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80018-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although most Prader-Willi syndrome children perform in the mentally retarded ranges on standardized IQ tests, it is not known if their cognitive impairments are global in nature or if they exhibit a particular pattern of strengths and weaknesses in their psychological capacities. To examine this question, a cohort of children suffering from Prader-Willi syndrome was administered a battery of neuropsychological tests. The results indicated that, relative to other cognitive capacities assessed, particularly severe deficits were noted on tasks that involved information processing using the auditory modality. No differences in cognitive capacity were found between children with a number 15 chromosome defect and those with a normal karyotype configuration. Based on these initial findings, it appears that the clinical diagnosis of Prader-Willi syndrome is more important than a karyotype configuration in understanding these youngsters' manifest cognitive deficits.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77671,"journal":{"name":"Applied research in mental retardation","volume":"7 4","pages":"Pages 459-466"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80018-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14917142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacqueline S. Thousand , Sara N. Burchard, Joseph E. Hasazi
{"title":"Field-based generation and social validation managers and staff competencies for small community residences","authors":"Jacqueline S. Thousand , Sara N. Burchard, Joseph E. Hasazi","doi":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80001-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80001-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Characteristics and competencies for four staff positions in community residences for individuals with mental retardation were identified utilizing multiple empirical and deductive methods with field-based practitioners and field-based experts. The more commonly used competency generation methods of expert opinion and job performance analysis generated a high degree of knowledge and skill-based competencies similar to course curricula. Competencies generated by incumbent practitioners through open-ended methods of personal structured interview and critical incident analysis were ones which related to personal style, interpersonal interaction, and humanistic orientation. Although seldom included in staff, paraprofessional, or professional training curricula, these latter competencies include those identified by Carl Rogers as essential for developing an effective helping relationship in a therapeutic situation (i.e., showing liking, interest, and respect for the clients; being able to communicate positive regard to the client). Of 21 core competency statements selected as prerequisites to employment for all four staff positions, the majority (17 of 21) represented interpersonal skills important to working with others, including responsiveness to resident needs, personal valuation of persons with mental retardation, and normalization principles.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77671,"journal":{"name":"Applied research in mental retardation","volume":"7 3","pages":"Pages 263-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80001-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14871684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles L. Salzberg, Martin Agran, Benjamin Lignugaris/Kraft
{"title":"Behaviors that contribute to entry-level employment a profile of five jobs","authors":"Charles L. Salzberg, Martin Agran, Benjamin Lignugaris/Kraft","doi":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80003-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80003-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research has identified many behaviors that appear to be related to the employment success of mentally retarded workers. In this study, competitive employment supervisors who were drawn from five entry-level occupations judged the importance and frequency of 23 work-related behaviors. Differences were found between the jobs in the relative importance and frequency of some behaviors. Moreover, there was a set of important core skills that was found to be generally applicable across entry-level jobs. The data are discussed in terms of their relevance for developing employment preparation curricula for entry-level workers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":77671,"journal":{"name":"Applied research in mental retardation","volume":"7 3","pages":"Pages 299-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0270-3092(86)80003-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14871686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}