Schizophrenia: Token Economies in the management of Schizophrenia (KR) COPY Flashcards

1
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How is token economy used in SZ?

A

as a management technique

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What management techniques are used for SZ?

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Token Economy

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3
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Where is token economy used?

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institutions such as psychiatric hospitals

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Which approach does token economy use?

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Behaviourist approach

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Which principles of the behaviourist approach are used to create token economy?

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Operant conditioning

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Why would token economy need to be used with those who have been institutionalised?

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they have developed maladaptive behaviour

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Give an example of maladaptive behaviour a SZ patient may have developed from being institutionalised?

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Bad hygiene or lack of communication

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bad hygiene or lack of communication are examples of what?

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maladaptive behaviour

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What is the aim of token economy?

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to change patients behaviour so they are easier to manage

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Aside from managing behaviour, what is another aim of token economy?

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to provide a better quality of life and enable them to live outside the hospital

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What could operant conditioning use to manage Sz?

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Postive reinforcement

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Outline positive reinforcement?

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Doing a behaviour to recieve a positive outcome i.e. reward

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How do we use positive reinforcement to manage SZ?

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give a patient a reward for completing desirable behaviour

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14
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give examples of desirable behaviour in a hospital?

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good hygiene, good communication, taking medication

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15
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What issues might hospital face when handing out direct reinforment?

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They may not catch the behaviour in time so the patient doesn’t associate the behaviour with the reward

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16
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How could psychologists avoid the issues with using direct reinforcement?

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Use tokens as secondary reinforcement that the patient can trade in for a reward

17
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Briefly bullet point the steps of token economy

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  1. complete the behaviour
  2. recieve a token
  3. exchange the token for reward
18
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What do tokens act as?

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secondary reinforcers

19
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when do tokens have to be given?

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immediately after the behaviour has been completed

20
Q

Can tokens just be used by them selves? and if not why?

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No, the tokens are not rewarding by themselves

21
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Who conducted research to support for token economy?

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Dickerson et al (2005)

22
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What did dickerson et al use to research token economy?

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a meta analysis of 13 studies

23
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What was Dickerson et al find in his meta analysis of token economy studies?

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that token economy was useful in increasing adaptive behaviour

24
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Therefore what does Dickerson et al’s research do to the use of token economy?

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increases the credibility of token economy