Selecting and Implementing Interventions
Relapse and side-effect mitigation
Plan interventions to reduce unwanted effects of reinforcement, extinction, and punishment and to mitigate relapse of target behavior.
How this shows up in scenario questions
- 1Identify relapse risk after intervention changes.
- 2Choose mitigation for extinction or punishment side effects.
- 3Plan follow-up when behavior returns.
Common misconceptions
- Assuming reduced behavior can never return.
- Ignoring emotional or elicited effects.
- Using punishment without safeguards.
Distractor patterns
- Declare treatment failure without analyzing context.
- Ignore renewal across settings.
- Escalate intrusiveness before mitigation.
Related terms
relapseresurgencerenewalside effectsmitigation