Adolescents in secured residential facilities may engage in excess behavior immediately following verbal directives or corrective statements from staff. Excess behavior may include verbal aggression, indices of disrespect (e.g., eye rolling, grunting, and obscene gestures), or even physical aggression. These excess behaviors may evoke further directives or corrective statements from staff that, in turn, escalate the adolescent's excess behavior and can produce undesirable effects for both the adolescent (e.g., loss of privileges) and staff members (e.g., increased burn out). Teaching detained adolescents to respond appropriately to staff directives and corrective statements may produce large collateral changes in the way staff interact with adolescents in detention facilities. These changes could be conceptualized as a behavioral cusp. We used behavioral skills training to teach 11 adolescent males to respond appropriately to staff directives. All 11 students showed low percentages of trials with appropriate reactions in baseline and high percentages of trials with appropriate reactions during treatment and generalization sessions. Further, two students showed maintenance of the skill 1 month and 5 months following treatment.

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行为技能培训以增加青少年男性在住院治疗中的适当反应。

在安全住宅设施中的青少年可能会在工作人员的口头指示或纠正声明后立即进行过度行为。过度行为可能包括言语攻击、不尊重的迹象（例如，翻白眼、咕噜咕噜和淫秽手势），甚至身体攻击。这些过度行为可能会引起工作人员的进一步指示或纠正声明，进而加剧青少年的过度行为，并对青少年（例如，失去特权）和工作人员（例如，倦怠增加）产生不良影响。教导被拘留的青少年对工作人员的指令和纠正声明做出适当的反应，可能会导致工作人员与拘留设施中的青少年互动的方式发生巨大的附带变化。这些变化可以被概念化为行为尖峰。我们使用行为技能培训来教 11 名青春期男性对员工指令做出适当的反应。所有 11 名学生在基线时表现出适当反应的试验百分比较低，而在治疗和泛化过程中出现适当反应的试验百分比较高。此外，两名学生在治疗后 1 个月和 5 个月表现出保持技能。