Token_Economies

Token Economies Token economies have been proven to work in many different situations and Tolman High School's at-risk students would be great candidates for this type of behavior modification. A token economy would work well in Tolman's environment and it would be very beneficial with our students. A token economy is a technique used by therapists to reward patients. Tokens are given to the patient when they act in certain ways, and these tokens can be exchanged for rewards at a later time. Tokens are worth nothing in themselves but can be exchanged for something of value. Token economies have been used in many different settings including schools, prisons, and mental hospitals. They have been quite successful in settings that contain people with disruptive behavior patterns such as schools and prisons. Some of the advantages of a token economy are as follows: tokens are attractive to subjects, there is a gap between response and reinforcement, they can be administered anywhere, there is no interruption of behavior, token, behavior, students, work, tokens, modification, economy, economies, high, been, at-risk, type, tolman's, tolman, themselves, should, settings, schools, school's, rewards, prisons, positive, hard, good, exchanged, different, beneficial, behaviors, worth, ways, very, value, train, tool, time