Impact of Treatment Integrity

Question 1

Treatment integrity

Answer 1

the degree to which an intervention program is implemented as planned. It is critical component of professional practice. Ongoing progress monitoring is also critical ofr integrity.. School Psychologists can take proactive steps to ensure that students are provided with effective intervention practices by:

Question 2

Five components of integrity: Adherence

Answer 2

how closely the intervention attends to procedues intended by creator (standardization)

Question 3

Five Components of integrity: Quality of delivery

Answer 3

consideration of interventionists’ skills, decisions, timing, choices, and judgement in implementing

Question 4

Five Components of integrity: Program Differentiation

Answer 4

degree to which intervention differs (distinct) from other existing practices. Without this it is difficult to attribute change to intervention and ow to some extraneous factor

Question 5

Five Components of Integrity: Exposure

Answer 5

number, length, frequency, or duration of intervention sessions

Question 6

Five components of integrity: Participant responsiveness

Answer 6

level of interventionist and student engagement, which appears to be related to the concept of intervention acceptability

Question 7

Characteristics that discourage intervention integrity:

Answer 7

Complexity

multiple resources required

time requred

diversity of students worked with

familiarity with intervention that address same problems

difficult behavior or anger/hostility

severity or duration of problems