Application of Negative Reinforcement and Reward Technique to Reduce Behavior of Collecting Goods In Individual with Schizophrenia

Our subject is a 55-year-old man and former civil servant. He claimed to have seen someone who others could not see. believed that he an important person. had strange behavior such as separating himself from others, speaking laughing alone, collecting rubbish. Based on the assessment through observation, interviews, psychological tests, was diagnosed with schizophrenia behavioral problems collect things. The subject’s appears because feels pleasure after goods. did do other activities make him feel good; thus, repeated. intervention aims reduce frequency of things negative reinforcement rewards techniques. eventually suppressed carried out by gradually.