ABSTRACT
There are numerous treatment techniques for achieving behavioural change. These include methods to increase and decrease behaviours. Systematic desensitisation, flooding, modelling, shaping, and chaining are some of the methods used to teach new skills or increase participation. Positive and negative reinforcement, time out, extinction, response cost, over-correction, and aversive conditioning have all been used to reduce or eliminate undesirable behaviours (see Rimm & Masters, 1979; Wood & McMillan, 2000; Yule & Carr, 1987; for fuller descriptions of these techniques). Wilson (1991a) also provides examples of the use of some of these methods in neuropsychological rehabilitation.
