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Behavioral treatment of psychogenic polydipsia.

This report describes the behavioral treatment of psychogenic polydipsia in an autistic, severely mentally retarded woman who had a history of self-induced water intoxication. Treatment emphasized the use of edibles and reductions in activity demands to reward water refusal. Employing this procedure, paraprofessional staff normalized the client's water consumption, and thereby prevented further episodes of potentially-fatal water intoxication.

Adult

Charting as a multipurpose treatment intervention for family therapy.

This paper discusses the behavior modification technique of charting as a double-bind communication. Though the procedure was initially employed as a step in demonstrating operant conditioning (7) and later in diagnosis of the antecedents and consequences maintaining undesired behavior (8), it also proved one of the more powerful therapeutic interventions. Literature reviews on treatment programs for obesity (6) and behavioral approaches to marital therapy (2) support this contention. Its efficacy can be explained by integrating the viewpoints of behaviorist and family therapy approaches espoused by Haley (4) and Weakland et al. (9). Following are brief case reports in which charting resulted in quick and sometimes dramatic change.

Adolescent