Treatment of Encopresis with Operant Conditioning: a Case Report
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چکیده
Encopresis or faecal soiling has been defined as an act of involuntary defecation which is not directly attributed to organic illness (Kanner, 1950). Encopresis or soiling may occur in children with normal intelligence, brain damaged children and psychotic children. It denotes an uncontrolled defecation of an emotional origin. Presently, there are few reports of successful treatment by means of behavioural therapy and operant conditioning (Edelman, 1971; Ferinden and Van Mandal, 1970 ; Pedrini and Pedrini, 1971). We are reporting the case of a child with encopresis whom we treated successfully with operant conditioning.
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