Token Economy

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  • Token Economy (TE)
    • Evaluation
      • It is hard to determine the success as the group can't be compared with a control only past behaviours
      • Community - this could be less effective in the community as P's don't have 24/7 supervision
      • Most research is meta analysis which makes it unreliable because they all used different methods
      • Ethics - primary reinforcers could include necessary needs like food which could lead to issues
      • Researcher's are inconclusive about where this is effective due to the lack of RCTs
    • What is TE?
      • The rate of which the tokens are given out has to be reduced slowly to keep the behaviour being encouraged
      • For a behaviour to be encouraged the reward has to be wanted by the P
      • This is used as a way of managing sz not treating it
      • Rewards are secondary reinforcers which can be exchanged for primary reinforcers
      • Where desirable behaviours are encouraged by using rewards

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