PEDIATRICS Vol. 66 No. 3 September 1980, pp. 355-358
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Behavior Modification Protocols on a Pediatric Adolescent Unit

Joseph L. Woolston MD1 and John E. Schowalter MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Yale-New Haven Hospital, and The Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut

The use of operant conditioning protocols for the management of behavioral disturbances of hospitalized adolescents with serious chronic medical illnesses is discussed in this paper. The use of the protocol from the point of view of changing hospital staff interaction is emphasized. Three cases are used to illustrate the process by which the protocol is created and its therapeutic effect on the patient and staff.

Submitted on October 24, 1979
Accepted on January 3, 1980