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Case Reports
. 2006 Winter;39(4):459-62.
doi: 10.1901/jaba.2006.62-05.

Reducing skin picking via competing activities

Kathleen Lynne Lane  1 , Ada Thompson, Cara L Reske, Lauren M Gable, Sally Barton-Arwood
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Reducing skin picking via competing activities

Kathleen Lynne Lane et al. J Appl Behav Anal. 2006 Winter.

Abstract

This study examined the outcomes of a competing activities intervention to decrease skin picking exhibited by a 9-year-old student with comorbid diagnoses. Results of an ABCBAB design revealed that the use of student-selected manipulatives resulted in reduced skin picking.

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Figure 1. Percentage of time Jason exhibited skin picking and occupied hands.
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