Token Economies Flashcards
1
Q
Token economies in hospitals work the same way they do in prisons. The aim is for
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The sufferer to learn desirable behaviour.
2
Q
The issue with token economies are
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- They’re patronising and might become a source of new delusional fixation.
- they’re an artifical way of managing the condition, outside a hospital they may be entirely ineffective so it isn’t really giving people a means of coping.
3
Q
Glowacki found that…
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Between 1999 and 2013 the use of token economies in hospitals had sufferers show reduced negative symptoms and undesirable behaviour
4
Q
Token economies could also i___________ patients in hospitals
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Institutionalise
5
Q
Between 1999 and 2013….
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Token economies have been found to reduce reports of undesirable behaviour
