abstract: 'Poverty is associated with poor health and affects many United States

  residents. The therapeutic workplace, an operant intervention designed

  to treat unemployed adults with histories of drug addiction, could form

  the basis for an effective antipoverty program. Under the therapeutic

  workplace, participants receive pay for work. To promote drug abstinence

  or medication adherence, participants must provide drug-free urine

  samples or take scheduled doses of medication, respectively, to maintain

  maximum pay. Therapeutic workplace participants receive job-skills

  training in Phase 1 and perform income-producing jobs in Phase 2. Many

  unemployed, drug-addicted adults lack skills they would need to obtain

  high-skilled and high-paying jobs. Many of these individuals attend

  therapeutic workplace training reliably, but only when offered stipends

  for attendance. They also work on training programs reliably, but only

  when they earn stipends for performance on training programs. A

  therapeutic workplace social business can promote employment, although

  special contingencies may be needed to ensure that participants are

  punctual and work entire work shifts, and social businesses do not

  reliably promote community employment. Therapeutic workplace

  participants work with an employment specialist to seek community

  employment, but primarily when they earn financial incentives. Reducing

  poverty is more challenging than promoting employment, because it

  requires promoting employment in higher paying, full-time and steady

  jobs. Although a daunting challenge, promoting the type of employment

  needed to reduce poverty is an important goal, both because of the

  obvious benefit in reducing poverty itself and in the potential

  secondary benefit of reducing poverty-related health disparities.'
affiliation: 'Silverman, K (Corresponding Author), Johns Hopkins Univ, Sch Med, Dept
  Psychiat \& Behav Sci, Ctr Learning \& Hlth, 5200 Eastern Ave,Suite 350 East, Baltimore,
  MD 21224 USA.

  Silverman, Kenneth; Holtyn, August F.; Subramaniam, Shrinidhi, Johns Hopkins Univ,
  Sch Med, Dept Psychiat \& Behav Sci, Baltimore, MD 21205 USA.

  Subramaniam, Shrinidhi, Calif State Univ Stanislaus, Dept Psychol \& Child Dev,
  Turlock, CA 95382 USA.'
author: Silverman, Kenneth and Holtyn, August F. and Subramaniam, Shrinidhi
author-email: ksilverm@jhmi.edu
author_list:
- family: Silverman
  given: Kenneth
- family: Holtyn
  given: August F.
- family: Subramaniam
  given: Shrinidhi
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1037/pha0000230
eissn: 1936-2293
files: []
issn: 1064-1297
journal: EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
keywords: poverty; operant conditioning; incentives; unemployment; drug addiction
keywords-plus: 'EMPLOYMENT-BASED REINFORCEMENT; INJECTION-DRUG USERS; OPIOID-DEPENDENT

  ADULTS; THERAPEUTIC WORKPLACE; SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS; COCAINE ABSTINENCE;

  UNITED-STATES; CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT; ACADEMIC SKILLS; ATTENDANCE'
language: English
month: DEC
number: '6'
number-of-cited-references: '54'
orcid-numbers: Subramaniam, Shrinidhi/0000-0003-4273-7935
pages: 515-524
papis_id: a9d1c02ed43d9317b39aaf79f2e2c6ed
ref: Silverman2018behavioranalysts
researcherid-numbers: '/ABG-5735-2021

  '
tags:
- relevant
- review
times-cited: '15'
title: 'Behavior Analysts in the War on Poverty: Developing an Operant Antipoverty
  Program'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000452230000001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '26'
web-of-science-categories: 'Psychology, Biological; Psychology, Clinical; Pharmacology
  \& Pharmacy;

  Psychiatry'
year: '2018'