Direct Escape (DE) 3.0

Category 3.0 Direct Escape (DE)
An aversive event is directly terminated by behaviors in this category without the mediation of another person.

3.1 Direct Escape: Unpleasant Social Situations
·         Unpleasant social situations elicit problem behavior that directly terminates the event (i.e., running out of the room).
3.2 Direct Escape: Lengthy task or instruction
·         Value of escape becomes established due to the aversive nature of the lengthy task, and problem behaviors are maintained because they are more effective at terminating the task than appropriate behaviors.
3.3 Direct Escape: Relatively difficult task or instruction
·         Value of escape becomes established due to the difficulty of the task, and problem behaviors are maintained because they are more effective at terminating the task than appropriate behaviors.
3.4 Direct Escape: Aversive physical stimuli
·         Behaviors that directly terminate an aversive physical condition (i.e., removing clothes that are too tight).
EXAMPE of Direct Escape
Children are seated in a small group. One child begins to cry. Another child covers his ears, and then elopes from the group into another room that is quiet but has no adult supervision.
·         Eloping: Leaving an area without adult consent
·         The behavior directly terminated the unpleasant social situation.
·         The behavior did not involve the mediation of another individual.
Replacement Behaviors for Direct Escape
Alternate direct escape form (do something by yourself)
·         directly produces escape in a safe and socially acceptable way
Escape Mand (ask to stop something)
·         Teach the individual to request removal or escape in a socially appropriate manner that is mediated through another individual
Tolerance Training Option (tolerate for ____amount of time, then all done with ____.)

·         Differential Negative Reinforcement of Other behavior (DNRO); set a specified time that you would like the child to remain in the aversive condition, and allow removal from the condition in the absence of target behavior occurs during that time interval.

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