Relapse following the successful treatment of problem behavior can increase the likelihood
of injury and the need for more intensive care. Current research offers some predictions of …

Resurgence is an increase in a previously suppressed behavior resulting from a worsening
in reinforcement conditions for current behavior. Resurgence is often observed following …

Functional communication training is a well‐established treatment for socially reinforced
destructive behavior that typically includes differential reinforcement of the functional …

Discontinuation of the contingency between a response and its reinforcer sometimes
produces a temporary increase in the response before its rate decreases, a phenomenon …

Results of several recent translational studies have suggested that correlating contextual or
discriminative stimuli with the delivery and withholding of reinforcement for the functional …

The behavioral processes determining the magnitude of the resurgence of destructive
behavior during reinforcement schedule thinning have yet to be described, despite an uptick …

Behavioral momentum theory (BMT) suggests that resurgence of destructive behavior may
be at least partly determined by the rate of alternative reinforcement, with lean schedules of …

Randomization statistics offer alternatives to many of the statistical methods commonly used
in behavior analysis and the psychological sciences, more generally. These methods are …

Resurgence, the recurrence of responding due to a worsening of reinforcement conditions
for current behavior, is a prevalent form of treatment relapse. Resurgence as Choice in …

Translation of promising procedures for mitigating treatment relapse has received
considerable attention recently from researchers across the basic–applied continuum. One …