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| Social workers' acceptability ratings of behavioural treatments and pharmacotherapy for the management of geriatric behavior problems | | Author(s) | Lynn Osterkamp, R Mark Mathews, Louis D Burgio |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 23, no 5, July-Aug 1997 |
| Pages | pp 425-435 |
| Keywords | Behaviour disorders ; Drugs ; Behaviour modification ; Psychiatric treatment ; Social workers ; Assessment procedures for mental patients ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study's purpose was to obtain treatment acceptability ratings from social workers with a large number of client contacts aged 60 and over. Social workers were presented with written scenarios depicting a 75 year old woman with a behaviour problem. The client in the case varied by cognitive capacity (non-demented or experiencing dementia), living situation (living with a family caregiver or in a nursing home), and presenting problem (aggression, verbal abuse, or non-compliance). Using Kazdin's Treatment Evaluation Inventory (1980), participants rated three treatments: positive reinforcement, time out from positive reinforcement, and haloperidol. Although ratings for time out varied by presenting problem, the highest acceptability for each type of behaviour problem was assigned to the positive reinforcement condition, followed by time out, with lowest ratings associated with haloperidol. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971030239 A |
| Classmark | EP: LLD: LODM: LP: QR: DA:4C: 7T |
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