Abstract
The music therapy staff of a large state mental hospital used rate-contingent guitar-rental plus feedback to decelerate head/face-touching of a 40-year-old male schizophrenic. The subject earned tokens during guitar lessons for decreasing rates of the target behavior. He could exchange these tokens for the use of a guitar for a specified time period on the ward where he lived. The program successfully reduced the rate of head/face-touching to criterion after 21 sessions. After 2.5 years, the rate was still below baseline, with generalization to other music therapy activities and to the ward.
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