TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Teaching preschoolers to avoid abduction by strangers: Evaluation of maintenance strategies
JO  - Journal of child and family studies
A1  - Holcombe, Ariane
A1  - Wolery, Mark
A1  - Katzenmeyer, Julie
SP  - 177
EP  - 192
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
N2  - The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of effective training procedures for teaching preschoolers to avoid abduction by strangers and to evaluate strategies to promote maintenance of the acquired skills. The study was conducted in three Head Start classrooms with a total of 46 children. A multiple probe design across groups within each class and replicated across the three classrooms was used to evaluate two strategies for promoting maintenance: (a) monthly reviews involving verbal rehearsal, modeling, and feedback; and (b) monthly reviews involving verbal rehearsal, modeling, feedback, and in-class role play. The findings of the study indicate: (a) classroom teachers implemented the training procedures with a high degree of procedural fidelity, (b) all children were taught to resist the lures of strangers, (c) children maintained the critical abduction avoidance behavior (moving away from a stranger) while the maintenance promotion strategies were used, and (d) minimal differences were noted in the effectiveness of the two maintenance promotion strategies for the critical abduction avoidance behavior.<p /> 
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SN  - 1062-1024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02234094
ID  - ref1
ER  -