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Teaching a Mother to Attend Differentially to Her Mentally Handicapped Child's Behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Karen Rix
Karen Rix
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Hilda Lewis House, Croydon
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Abstract

A mother was taught to modify her interactional style with her language-delayed son, using direct feedback via a bug-in-the-ear and video recordings. Results showed that attending to and praising the child's behaviours and imitating vocalisations increased, while commands, questions and reprimands decreased. Methods of dealing with tantrums were taught but no occasion arose during the teaching for putting them into practice. Follow-up two years later showed Stephen making good progress, while neither his mother nor his school had needed any further outside help for him.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 122 - 132
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1988

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