Errorless Priming: A Brief, Success-Focused Intervention for a Child With Severe Reactive Aggression Export

@article{citeulike:4431724, abstract = {Reactive aggressive children experience social encoding and interpretation difficulties. Such deficits increase the likelihood that reactive aggressive children perceive the actions of others as provocative and respond in an aggressive manner. Errorless priming was developed as a proactive and success-focused treatment for an 8-year-old boy demonstrating severe reactive aggression (RA). Observations of the child revealed several antecedents that immediately preceded his aggression. This information enabled prediction of aggressive outbursts and development of an intervention that involved providing the child with preparatory information (i.e., priming statements) to moderate his reaction to upcoming stressors. As is characteristic of errorless approaches, a graduated hierarchy was used to systematically fade priming statements. Following treatment, the child was able to tolerate, without problem behavior, antecedent conditions that he found challenging prior to treatment. Errorless priming may have broad potential as a brief and time-efficient intervention for RA. 10.1177/1534650108319915}, author = {Folino, Anthony and Ducharme, Joseph M. and Conn, Nathalie K.}, citeulike-article-id = {4431724}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534650108319915}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ccs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/6/507}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1534650108319915}, journal = {Clinical Case Studies}, keywords = {aggression, case-reports, therapy}, month = {December}, number = {6}, pages = {507--520}, posted-at = {2009-04-29 01:29:49}, priority = {2}, title = {Errorless Priming: A Brief, Success-Focused Intervention for a Child With Severe Reactive Aggression}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534650108319915}, volume = {7}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4431724 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4431724 N2 - Reactive aggressive children experience social encoding and interpretation difficulties. Such deficits increase the likelihood that reactive aggressive children perceive the actions of others as provocative and respond in an aggressive manner. Errorless priming was developed as a proactive and success-focused treatment for an 8-year-old boy demonstrating severe reactive aggression (RA). Observations of the child revealed several antecedents that immediately preceded his aggression. This information enabled prediction of aggressive outbursts and development of an intervention that involved providing the child with preparatory information (i.e., priming statements) to moderate his reaction to upcoming stressors. As is characteristic of errorless approaches, a graduated hierarchy was used to systematically fade priming statements. Following treatment, the child was able to tolerate, without problem behavior, antecedent conditions that he found challenging prior to treatment. Errorless priming may have broad potential as a brief and time-efficient intervention for RA. 10.1177/1534650108319915 IS - 6 JF - Clinical Case Studies EP - 520 TI - Errorless Priming: A Brief, Success-Focused Intervention for a Child With Severe Reactive Aggression VL - 7 SP - 507 KW - aggression KW - case-reports KW - therapy AU - Folino, Anthony AU - Ducharme, Joseph AU - Conn, Nathalie PY - 2008/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1534650108319915 ER -