Decreasing Social Media Use with Contingency Management: Inside JABA 15

In the 15th installment of the Inside JABA Series, Editor and Chief Dr. John Borrero and I chat with Drs. Lesleigh Stinson and Jesse Dallery about their novel application of a Contingency Management intervention. In this case, they used CM procedures to reduce excessive social media use. 

Lesleigh is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Florida's Center for Behavioral Economic Health Research, and Jesse is a Professor of Psychology, also at UF. 

If you're not sure what Contingency Management is, don't worry, Lesleigh and Jesse cover the basics of it in this show. For additional information, you can also check out Jesse's previous appearance on the Inside JABA Series, where he and his colleagues used smartphone mediated technologies in conjunction with CM to reduce cigarette smoking. 

This is a truly "Under the Dome" paper, and in our discussion of it, we touch on topics that include Internet Addiction, the recent APA Health Advisory on social media use, motivational interviewing, stages of change, and the benefits of single-case designs. 

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We mentioned many resources and studies during this podcast. I've done my best to list them all below:

• Center for Behavioral Economic Health Research
• Jesse Dallery's lab: BHaT Lab
• Reducing problematic social media use via a package intervention (Stinson and Dallery, 2023)
• APA Health advisory on social media use in adolescence 
• N of 1 collaborative
• Screen Sanity (great resources for families)
• A behavior-analytic account of motivational interviewing (Christopher and Dougher, 2009)
• “I’s” on the prize: A systematic review of individual differences in Contingency Management treatment response (Forster et al., 2020)
• Toward an era of impact of digital contingency management in the treatment of substance use disorders (Dallery et al., 2023)
• A Preliminary Evaluation of the Effects of a Contingency Management + Deposit Contract Intervention on Problematic Smartphone Use With College Students (Williams-Buttari et al., 2023)
• Contingency management for smartphone and social media use: a feasibility study (Stanley et al., 2021)
• The association between social media use and sleep disturbance among young adults (Levenson et al., 2016)
• How Motivational Interviewing Helps Reduce Alcohol Use Problems in Young Adults: Session 158 with Jim Murphy