A COMPREHENSIVE INSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT PROGRAM FOR AGGRESSIVE-DISRUPTIVE HIGH FUNCTIONING MENTALLY RETARDED PERSONS.

A unit wide behavioral programming system for high functioning mentally retarded clients who displayed maladaptive behavioral excesses was developed and implemented on a coeducational institutional living unit for 7 months. Significant clinical reductions were achieved in client injuries, broken windows, emergency, restraint usage, the percent of clients receiving psychotropic medications and medication dosages. These reductions continued during the program’s maintenance phase. A number of factors are discussed that appear to have contributed to the program’s success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]