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The Effect of Non-Contingent Exercise on Purposeless Wandering and Self-Injury in a Man with a Profound Learning Difficulty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Simon Whitaker  and
Amra Saleem
Simon Whitaker
Affiliation:
Princess Royal Community Health Centre, Huddersfield
Amra Saleem
Affiliation:
Princess Royal Community Health Centre, Huddersfield
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Abstract

The introduction of a period of non-contingent exercise was found to have a differential effect on two challenging behaviours shown by a man with a profound learning disability. His rate of purposeless wandering was reduced, but initially there was an increase in his rate of self-injury. The implication of these results are considered with regard to the uses of ecological interventions.

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Brief Clinical Report
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 99 - 102
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1994

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