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An Application Of A Token Economy In A Residential Treatment Center For Pre-Adolescent And Adolescent Girls, Eileen M. Moriarty
An Application Of A Token Economy In A Residential Treatment Center For Pre-Adolescent And Adolescent Girls, Eileen M. Moriarty
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The purpose of this study was to increase the level of completed academic tasks through the use of a token economy system with female adolescents in an institutional classroom setting.
A 70 percent anticipated completion of academic tasks was the primary aim. Secondly, would there he an 80 percent increase of appropriate behaviors following intervention?
Six emotionally disturbed girls living in an adolescent treatment center; subjects of this study, were unable to adjust to the socially acceptable norms of behavior. Each of these girls was described as too disturbed to learn.
Utilizing the principles of behavioral change, the experimental classroom …