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Date of Award
1976
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
Graduate School
First Advisor
John R. Lutzker
First Committee Member
Martin T. Gipson
Second Committee Member
Timothy Blackburn
Abstract
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.
Pages
21
Recommended Citation
Williamson, Phyllis. (1976). The use of habit reversal in reducing tics with two institutionalized individuals. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1922
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