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A Problem of Sexual Behaviour Presenting in an Adult Training Centre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Georgiana Robertson
Georgiana Robertson
Affiliation:
Hampshire Social Services Department
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Abstract

A young man's serious sexual misbehaviour, which resulted in his being banned from his ATC, was tackled using a behavioural approach (reinforcement of appropriate behaviours) and counselling. This combined programme had an immediate effect in reducing his overt sexual activities at the Centre and promoting his acceptability there which has been maintained in the succeeding three years. The token system used helped not only to structure the young man's response but also, as concrete evidence of his success, to change attitudes towards him of Centre staff.

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Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 95 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1988

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