Relapse following the successful treatment of problem behavior can increase the likelihood
of injury and the need for more intensive care. Current research offers some predictions of …

Behavioral treatments arranging differential reinforcement effectively treat severe problem
behavior while interventions are underway. However, many events challenge these …

Individuals who engage in problem behavior receive treatment services in various settings,
such as their homes, schools, and clinics. These individuals are also likely to experience …

Punishment and extinction are both effective methods of reducing instrumental responding
and may involve similar learning mechanisms. To characterize the similarities and …

In one experiment with human participants, we investigated the effects of using multiple
contexts during extinction on the renewal of operant responses. Undergraduate students …

Laboratory models of relapse provide methods for evaluating challenges to behavioral
treatments with differential reinforcement of an alternative response (DRA). Resurgence …

Renewal, the increase in behavior during extinction following context changes, may be
particularly concerning during intervention for feeding disorders because context changes …

Operant renewal is a form of relapse in which a previously extinguished response recurs
due to a change in context. We designed two experiments to examine the impact of …

Basic‐laboratory assessments of renewal may inform clinical efforts to maintain reduction of
severe destructive behavior when clients transition between contexts. The contextual …

In two instrumental conditioning experiments with rats, we examined the impacts of
acquisition and extinction cues on ABC renewal of instrumental behavior. Animals were …