Results of a Token Economy
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 35 (12), 1451-3
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1978.01770360055006
Abstract
A token economy for chronic psychiatric patients (average hospital stay of ten years) is reported. One hundred seventy-four patients were treated. Follow-up data were obtained on 173 patients who had been discharged from the hospital for an average of three years at the time of follow-up. One hundred twenty-five patients completed the program, which featured a graduated method for shaping behavior (functional levels). Ninety-one of the 125 patients who completed the program and were living in the community were employed. The program was most effective with patients who had been in the hospital for less than ten years and had an IQ above 80.Keywords
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