During extinction, it is critical that both parents agree on and adhere to the same management style when dealing with their child's inappropriate bedtime behavior. Parents refrain from their usual management strategies so as to ensure that the child's inappropriate bedtime behaviors are no longer reinforced (i.e., are extinguished). With unmodified extinction, reinforcement of inappropriate sleep behaviors should be completely withdrawn and withheld. Lancioni, in Behavioral Treatments for Sleep Disorders, 2011 Step 4: Unmodified Extinction – Bedtime and Night Wakings Psychological contact with values-remembering the purpose of undertaking something so difficult and unpleasant-can give meaning to weathering the storm and provide the courage and willingness necessary.įurther, parents of children with externalizing behavior problems often interact in attachment-rich ( Dadds & Hawes, 2006) ways following misbehavior and attachment-neutral ways when their child is behaving well.For parents, t urning in to parenting values, when their child is behaving well, can increase the frequency of attachment-rich parenting interactions and hence positive reinforcement for adaptive child behavior.
Parents need to weather the storm of the extinction burst in order to see behavior change in their child. Due to the extinction burst, the behavior is likely to get worse, not better, in the immediate moment and counterintuitively this worsening of behavior in that moment is actually a sign that the parenting changes are effective. Implementing positive parenting strategies with children with externalizing behavior problems is challenging. Coyne, in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, 2019 Childhood externalizing problems and values Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References.Koa Whittingham, Lisa W. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (340K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Full textįull text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. An analysis of 113 sets of extinction data indicated that bursting may not be as common as previously assumed (it occurred in 24% of the cases) and may be less likely when extinction is implemented with alternative procedures rather than as the sole intervention (bursting was evident in 12% of the former cases and 36% of the latter). Although extinction has been an effective treatment for a variety of behavior disorders, its use may be associated with several adverse side effects, the most common being an initial increase in the frequency of the target response, called an “extinction burst.” We attempted to determine the prevalence of the extinction burst in applied research and its possible attenuation with other operant procedures.
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