Evaluation of a brief work chore discipline procedure

✍ Scribed by Angela D. Hohnhorst; Mark W. Roberts

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 855 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1072-0847
• DOI: 10.1002/bin.2360070107

✦ Synopsis

Response cost procedures with adolescents in residential treatment have been widely used to discipline a variety of coercive behaviors. Unfortunately, token loss systems require a comprehensive token system for implementation. Brief work chores were evaluated as a possible substitute. Adolescent negative evaluations of peers ("rude talk") were targeted for reduction. A multiple baseline across settings design plus uncontrolled group data collected across baseline, treatment, and follow-up phases indicated that brief work chores suppressed negative evaluations. Use and limitations of work chore discipline procedures are discussed.

Discipline procedures are frequently a component of residential treatment programs for oppositional and conduct disordered adolescents. The most commonly reported form of discipline is response cost, typically the contingent removal of points or tokens (Bailey, Wolf,