A Comparison of Five Reinforcement Schedules for Use in Contingency Management-Based Treatment of Methamphetamine Abuse
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| Title: | A Comparison of Five Reinforcement Schedules for Use in Contingency Management-Based Treatment of Methamphetamine Abuse |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Roll, John M., Huber, Alice, Sodano, Ruthlyn |
| Source: | Psychological Record. Win 2006 56(1):67-67. |
| Availability: | Psychological Record. 214 North Acland Street, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022. Tel: 740-427-5377; Fax: 740-427-5390; Web site: http://www.thepsychologicalrecord.org/subscriptions.htm |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 15 |
| Publication Date: | 2006 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Descriptors: | Reinforcement, Rewards, Contingency Management, Drug Use, Therapy, Comparative Analysis, Drug Abuse, Outcomes of Treatment, Drug Rehabilitation |
| ISSN: | 0033-2933 |
| Abstract: | One variation of contingency management involves providing vouchers with monetary value for the provision of a biological sample indicating no recent drug use. These vouchers can be exchanged for goods or services. The schedule with which the vouchers are disbursed has been studied and results suggest that those schedules that incorporate escalating magnitude of reinforcement for consecutive instances of abstinence and a reset contingency, which reduces the value of the vouchers for instances of use, seem to provide the best treatment outcome. In this paper we explore several other scheduling arrangements while using the escalating schedule with a reset contingency as the comparator. The comparator schedule generally outperformed the other schedules in initiating and in maintaining abstinence from methamphetamine. (Contains 5 tables.) |
| Abstractor: | Author |
| Number of References: | 46 |
| Entry Date: | 2007 |
| Access URL: | https://www.thepsychologicalrecord.org/subscriptions.htm |
| Accession Number: | EJ750159 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | One variation of contingency management involves providing vouchers with monetary value for the provision of a biological sample indicating no recent drug use. These vouchers can be exchanged for goods or services. The schedule with which the vouchers are disbursed has been studied and results suggest that those schedules that incorporate escalating magnitude of reinforcement for consecutive instances of abstinence and a reset contingency, which reduces the value of the vouchers for instances of use, seem to provide the best treatment outcome. In this paper we explore several other scheduling arrangements while using the escalating schedule with a reset contingency as the comparator. The comparator schedule generally outperformed the other schedules in initiating and in maintaining abstinence from methamphetamine. (Contains 5 tables.) |
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| ISSN: | 0033-2933 |
