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Contingency management

Contingency management refers to a form of behavioral therapy that involves the principle of rewarding a client for desired behaviors and not providing rewards for undesired behaviors.

 

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Contingency management refers to a form of Behavioral therapy that involves the principle of rewarding a client for desired behaviors and not providing rewards for undesired behaviors. It is any one of a variety of operant conditioning techniques that attempts to control a behavior by manipulating its consequences.

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