Motivational Refinements for Facilitating Reinforcement Schedule Thinning

Summary

Destructive behavior represents a comorbid condition of developmental disability for which risk increases with intellectual disability severity, communication deficits, and co-occurring autism spectrum disorder. Destructive behavior, such as self-injurious behavior and aggression, causes harm to the child and others and increases the risk for institutionalization, social isolation, physical restraint, medication overuse, and abuse. Clinicians have used functional analyses to identify the variables that reinforce destructive behavior and to develop effective, function-based treatments.

Shortened from the sponsor's brief summary. View official record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Conditions studied

• Decreasing Destructive Behavior
• Increasing Functional Communicative Behavior

Eligibility basics and study details

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Ages

3 to 17 years

Sex

All

Healthy volunteers

Accepted

Sponsor

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Last updated on ClinicalTrials.gov

August 12, 2026

These are the basic criteria only. The full inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official record, and the study team decides who can take part.

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