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Extinction versus Exhaustion: or “Oh Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Janet Carr
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology
Joan Bicknell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London

Extract

Persistent night-time disturbance in a small dog was treated by extinction. The difficulties of carrying out the programme, which in this case necessitated the use of an associate therapist, are discussed. Although a reversal design was not employed and therefore contingency control could not be indisputably demonstrated, the programme was judged to have been successful.

Type
Clinical Section
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1985

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