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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:pacific.edu/oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:uop_etds-2921 |
| Date | 01 January 1976 |
| Creators | Williamson, Phyllis |
| Publisher | Scholarly Commons |
| Source Sets | University of the Pacific |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations |
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