Decreasing disruptive behavior by adolescent boys in residential care by increasing their positive to negative interactional ratios

Behavior Modification

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 470-486

  Friman, Patrick C ^a   Jones, Mark ^b   Smith, Gail ^b   L daly, Daniel ^b   Larzelere, Robert ^b  

^a Girls and Boys Town   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MALE; REINFORCEMENT; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTIVATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT; TOKEN ECONOMY;

EID: 0030752576     PISSN: 01454455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01454455970214005     Document Type: Article

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