PSYC1110 Midterm: Cunningham Study Guide
2 Apr 2016
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Ruminative vomiting: fatal infant syndrome characterized by the regurgitation, chewing, and reswallowing of food, traditional treatment. Response prevention: intensive individual attention, dietary modi cation, anti-emetic medication, various mechanical devices. Mark: 9. 5 month old baby, pediatric ward of georgetown university medical center, vomiting after eating following brief stay with relatives at 6 months, suggested treatment (initial) No playing after meals: no medical basis for vomiting (psychogenic ruminator, treatments over the next 3. 5 months. Saturday, april 2, 2016: procedure and apparatus. One day prior to treatment: intravenous feedings were discontinued and baby placed on regular diet, treatments from 8am to 9pm. Mark put to sleep during the night so he wouldn"t ruminate. Shocks delivered at 1 sec intervals and stopped when mark stopped ruminating. Initially conducted in mark"s hospital room: bed, feeding chair, walker or allowed to play freely on the oor, results. Introduction of aversive therapy produced a decline in ruminating from a level of.
