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Habit reversal treatment of thumbsucking
- Source :
- Behaviour Research and Therapy. 18:395-399
- Publication Year :
- 1980
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 1980.
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Abstract
- About 40% of young children suck their thumbs, an action which is associated with dental problems and for which intra-oral devices have been the most effective treatment. The present study of 30 thumbsucking children evaluated the habit reversal treatment which included competing response training, parental support, and stimulus identification during a single session plus follow-up maintenance by the parent. Habit reversal training reduced thumbsucking by 92% in the first week, 95% in the fourth month, and 89% at the 20-month follow-up. A comparison treatment by a bitter tasting substance produced a reduction of about 35%.
- Subjects :
- Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Parental support
Adolescent
Habit reversal training
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Habit reversal
Thumbsucking
Developmental psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Behavior Therapy
Child, Preschool
medicine
Humans
Effective treatment
Female
Fingersucking
Child
Psychology
Single session
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00057967
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Behaviour Research and Therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....50c86a80ed181e7140f6f99f9de6965a