PSY240H5 Chapter Notes -Psychoactive Drug, Reinforcement, Intellectual Disability
Document Summary
Balancing freedom from harm and right to treatment for persons with developmental. Ethical and practical dilemma"s practitioners in the field of developmental disabilities: defending the individual"s right to effective treatment and education, protecting him/her from unnecessary intrusion, discomfort, or pain. Effective techniques for teaching persons with developmental disabilities: behavioural procedures, such as contingencies of reinforcement, shaping and stimulus control. Behavioural procedures have been used to eliminate maladaptive behaviour and to replace it with alternative, functional behaviour: use both positive reinforcement and punishment. Impact: positive side: of clients: led to a rejuvenation of interest and research in nonpunitive procedure (best interests, systematic and thorough behavioural assessment helps identify the controlling and maintaining variables for the maladaptive behaviour. Impact: negative side: banning of punitive procedure: Expected prolonged suffering, not just of individual, but also of the family, friends and care providers. A lifetime of physical and/or chemical restraint.
