Behavioural Strategies to Address Noncompliance

Abstract

In the following chapter, we will define noncompliance and discuss its importance, based on the understanding that noncompliance should necessarily be regarded as both a behavioral deficit and a behavioral excess. We’ll describe general behavioral approaches to remediating both the deficit and the excess and will review specific empirically supported interventions that address each problem. This chapter is intended for readers who provide care or instruction to persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities (PWIDD) or autism spectrum disorders, either professionally or as family caregivers. A basic understanding of behavioral psychology (including principles such as positive reinforcement, extinction, and stimulus control) will be beneficial. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)