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Antecedent Control Procedures
Description of the Strategy
Antecedent control procedures are environmental changes implemented prior to the behavior in order to control the frequency of that behavior—usually the reduction of challenging behavior, often with clients requiring pervasive support.
The Law of Effect
Antecedent control procedures started with a cat in a box. In 1898, Edward L. Thorndike published the following observation concerning a cat placed in a cage (puzzle box) containing dangling ropes, levers, and latches: When the cat made the proper response with these manipulanda, the cage door would open and the cat would exit and eat the food placed just outside. Over the following trials, the cat would less and less frequently make irrelevant responses and more and more quickly make the door-opening ...
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- Changing Criterion Design
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- Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)
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- Program Evaluation
- Rate and Frequency
- Standard Celeration Chart System
- Trend Line
- Visual Analysis of Graphic Data
- Autobiographies and Biographies - Adult Clinical Applications
- Agras, W. Stewart
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- Emmelkamp, Paul M. G.
- Foa, Edna B.
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- Kanfer, Frederick H.
- Kazdin, Alan E.
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- Marks, Isaac M.
- Marshall, William L.
- Meichenbaum, Donald H.
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- Wolpe, Joseph
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- Memory Rehabilitation After Traumatic Brain Injury
- Modeling
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- Progressive Muscular Relaxation
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- Role Playing
- Self-Control Therapy
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- Stampfl's Therapist Directed Implosive (Flooding) Therapy
- Systematic Desensitization
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- Therapeutic Relationship
- Token Economy
- Trauma Management Therapy
- Treatment Compliance in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Major Techniques - Child Clinical Applications
- Adolescent Anger Management
- Antecedent Control Procedures
- Anxiety Management
- Assertiveness Training
- Aversive Conditioning
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- Behavior Management for Improving Academic and Classroom Behavior
- Behavioral Consultation
- Behavioral Contracting
- Behavioral Family Therapy
- Behavioral Group Therapy With Children and Youth
- Behavioral Weight Control Therapy With Children
- Bell and Pad Bladder Training
- Biofeedback
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Contingency Management
- Counterconditioning
- Discrete Trial Therapy
- Drug Abuse Prevention Strategies
- Exposure and Response Prevention
- Extinction
- Flooding
- Full-Spectrum Home Training for Simple Bed-Wetting
- Function Communication Training
- Habit Reversal
- In Vivo Desensitization
- Life Skills Training
- Manualized Behavior Therapy
- Modeling
- Multisystemic Therapy
- Negative Reinforcement
- Overcorrection
- Pain Management
- Parent Training
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- Peer Intervention
- Pharmacotherapy
- Point System
- Positive Reinforcement
- Premack Principle
- Punishment
- Relapse Prevention
- Relaxation Training in Children
- Response Blocking
- Response Cost
- Self-Injury and Suicide
- Shaping
- Social and Interpersonal Skills Training
- Social Competence Treatment: Externalizing Disorders
- Sport Skill Training
- Systematic Desensitization With Children and Adolescents
- Time-Out
- Token Economy
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- Applied Behavior Analysis
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- Classroom Management
- Direct Instruction
- Direct Instruction Mathematics
- Functional Analysis
- Function-Based Approach to Behavior Support: Logic, Practices, and Systems
- Person-Centered Planning
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- Progress Monitoring: Conceptual, Methodological, and Practical Applications
- School Emergency Procedures
- Schoolwide Discipline
- Single-Subject Research Design
- Wraparound
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- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Applied Tension
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- Aversion Relief
- Behavior Activation
- Behavior Rehearsal
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- Behavioral Assessment
- Behavioral Contracting
- Behavioral Treatment of Cigarette Smoking
- Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia
- Behaviorology
- Bibliotherapy
- Breathing Retraining
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Religious Beliefs and Practices
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Bipolar Disorder
- Competing Response Training
- Controlled Drinking
- Covert Positive Reinforcement
- Covert Rehearsal
- Covert Reinforcer Sampling
- Cue-Controlled Relaxation
- Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior
- Exposure
- Extinction and Habituation
- Group Behavioral Therapy for Depression
- Guided Mastery
- Habit Reversal
- Homework
- Intensive Behavior Therapy Unit
- Job Club Method
- Masturbatory Retraining
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Motivational Enhancement Therapy
- Noncontingent Reinforcement
- Orgasmic Reconditioning
- Overcorrection
- Paradoxical Intention
- Person-Centered Planning
- Private Practice of Behavioral Treatment
- Problem-Solving Therapy
- Reinforcement
- Relational Frame Therapy
- Response Prevention
- Schedule-Induced Behavior
- Self-Control
- Self-Control Desensitization
- Self-Monitoring
- Self-Statement Modification
- Setting Events
- Shadowing
- Social Effectiveness Training
- Spouse-Aided Therapy
- Squeeze Technique
- Stress Inoculation Training
- Termination
- Therapeutic Relationship
- Thought-Stopping
- Video Feedback
- Virtual Reality Therapy
- Minor Techniques - Child Clinical Applications
- 3-5-10-15 Method for Spelling
- Aromatic Ammonia
- Attention Training Procedures
- Beat the Buzzer
- Behavioral Rehearsal
- Chore and Allowance Program for Children
- Competing Response Training
- Compliance Training
- Contingent Exercise
- Contingent Restraint
- Correspondence Training
- Covert Conditioning With Children and Adolescents
- Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior
- Differential Reinforcement of Low Rates of Behavior
- Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior
- Discrimination Training
- Donald M. Baer
- Errorless Compliance Training
- Escape Training
- Facial Screening
- Fading
- Feedback
- Five-Step Procedure for Stealing
- Generalized Conditioned Punisher
- Generalized Conditioned Reinforcer
- Goal Setting
- Good Behavior Game
- Graduated Extinction
- Group Contingency
- Habituation
- Home-Based Reinforcement
- Homework
- Imaginal Procedures
- Lemon Juice Therapy
- Marking Time-Out
- Massed Practice
- Negative Practice
- Noncontingent Reward (Reinforcement)
- Positive Practice
- Problem-Solving Training
- Prompt
- Public Posting
- Regulated Breathing
- Reinforced Practice
- Restitution
- Retention Control Training
- Ritual Prevention
- Role Playing
- Self-Instruction Training
- Self-Monitoring
- Self-Praise
- Sensory Extinction
- Somatic Control Strategies
- Spontaneous Recovery
- Sticker/Star Chart
- Stimulus Control
- Stimulus Discrimination Training
- Task Analysis
- Thought Stopping
- Transfer of Stimulus Control
- Vicarious Conditioning
- Vicarious Extinction
- Vicarious Punishment
- Vicarious Reinforcement
- Virtual Reality Therapy With Children
- Water Misting
- Write-Say Method
- Minor Techniques - Educational Applications
- Academic Interventions
- Active Student Responding
- Active Supervision
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Beginning Reading
- Behavior Intervention Planning
- Behavioral Contracting
- Behavioral Momentum
- Behavioral Objectives
- Behavioral Rehearsal
- Chaining
- Choral Responding
- Classwide Peer Tutoring
- Corporal Punishment
- Cross-Age Tutoring
- Detention
- Differential Reinforcement
- Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior
- Discrete Trial Instruction
- Discrimination Training
- Error Correction
- Errorless Learning
- Extinction
- Fading
- Functional Communication Training
- General Case Programming
- Incidental Teaching
- Learned Helplessness
- Long-Term Objectives
- Mainstreaming
- Mastery Learning
- Negative Reinforcement
- Noncontingent Reinforcement as a Treatment for Problem Behavior in the Classroom
- Operant Conditioning
- Opportunity to Respond
- Pacing
- Peer Tutoring
- Pivotal Response Training
- Positive Peer Reporting
- Positive Reinforcement
- Precision Teaching
- Precorrection
- Preference and Reinforcer Identification
- Premack Principle
- Programmed Instruction
- Prompting
- Schedules of Reinforcement
- Self-Assessment
- Self-Instruction
- Self-Management
- Shaping to Teach New Behaviors
- Short-Term Objectives
- Social Skills Instruction
- Suspension
- Task Analysis
- Task Interspersal
- Teaching Schoolwide Expectations
- Teaching Students Self-Control
- Time Delay Instructional Procedure
- Time-Out
- Token Economy
- Research - Adult Clinical Applications
- Research - Educational Applications
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Conduct Disorders
- Effective Learning Environments
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Learning Disabilities
- Project Follow Through and Direct Instruction
- Self-Determination
- Sleep Deprivation
- Speech and Language Disorders
- Research and Theoretical - Child Clinical Applications
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Behavior Therapy
- Behavioral Pediatrics
- Case Conceptualization
- Classical Conditioning
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Child Clinical Applications
- Empirically Supported Treatments for Childhood Disorders
- Functional Analysis
- Generalization
- Maintenance
- Operant Conditioning
- Paradigmatic Behavior Therapy
- Research Designs
- Schedules of Reinforcement
- Theoretical and Conceptual Issues - Adult Clinical Applications
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy
- Behavior Therapy and Neuropsychology
- Behavior Therapy Theory
- Behavior Training
- Behavioral Analytic Approach to Supervision
- Behavioral Consultation
- Behavioral Social Work
- Behavioral Sport Psychology
- Behavioral Treatment in Natural Environments
- Behavioral Treatments of Minorities
- Behavioral Working Alliance
- Classical Conditioning
- Contextualism
- Cultural Differences in Cognitive Therapy
- Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Patient-Focused Research
- Historical Antecedents of Behavior Modification and Therapy
- Kantor's Interbehaviorism
- Philosophical Aspects of Behaviorism
- Private Events
- Schedules of Reinforcement
- Therapeutic Relationship
- Treatment Compliance in Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Treatment Failures in Behavior Therapy
- Theoretical Issues - Educational Applications
- Acquisition
- Antecedent
- Baseline
- Beginning Reading Instruction
- Behavioral Dimensions
- Behavioral Fluency
- Character Education
- Coercive Cycles in Families
- Consequence
- Contextual Fit
- Contextualism and Behavior Analysis
- Contingencies in Educational Settings
- Deprivation
- Establishing Operations
- Ethical Issues Regarding Behavior Management in the Schools
- Functional Relation
- Functions of Behavior
- Generalization
- Maintenance
- Operant
- Phases of Learning
- Preventing Escalated Behavior: Strategies for Defusing Problem Behavior
- Problem-Solving Consultation Model
- Punishment
- Response Class Theory
- Response Cost
- Rule-Governed Behavior
- Rules
- Satiation
- Setting Event
- Social Competence
- Stimulus Control
- Systems of Care
- Testable Hypothesis
- Zero Tolerance
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