Pic Treatment

Treatments Studies of pica show that there has been very little amounts of investigation done based on community-based research for people with pica (Gravestock, 2008). In other words, there has been little research done on individuals with pica whom do not live in an institutional setting and live within their communities. In order for an intervention to be a successful treatment, it must diminish the behavior 70%-90% from the baseline (Williams & McAdam, 2012). This successful treatment must also be able to contend with the frequency of automatic reinforcement (Sturmey & Didden, 2014). The hardest part of finding successful treatments is because automatic reinforcement is constant so the treatment must be able to apply constantly as …show more content…
This is difficult because the most common form of stimulation described with pica is oral which means having to have another form of oral stimulation for the person to partake in such as eating another food such as popcorn instead of the pica …show more content…
(2011) found that majority of treatments for pica fall under the behavioral interventions category because they involve the environment, consequences, and behavioral skills training. Behavioral treatments aim to reduce pica by having controlling consumption to an appropriate level, providing alternative sources of stimulation, and by providing the means to control consumption around items that are non-nutritive (Hagopian et al. 2011). These help with the reduction of pica behaviors because they all offer other outlets to diminish the challenging behaviors. Results of behavioral interventions show that they are high effective treatments when used together for treating self-injurious behaviors (Call, 2015). The treatment 's effectiveness is affected by the different variables within the causes of pica (Pace & Toyer, 2000). In other words, the treatment 's effectiveness is dependent on the individual 's cause of pica such as environmental factors or oral