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Assessing Treatment Integrity In Behavioral Consultation, Lee Wilkinson Dec 2006

Assessing Treatment Integrity In Behavioral Consultation, Lee Wilkinson

Lee A Wilkinson, PhD

The trend in school psychology services is a shift from an emphasis on an assessment-based paradigm to one of consultation problem-solving and behavioral intervention. A critical component of consultation-derived interventions and behavior change is treatment integrity. Treatment integrity (or fidelity) refers to the extent to which an intervention is implemented as intended (or planned). Although its importance has been acknowledged in the literature, this construct has largely been neglected in consultation research and practice. This article describes practical approaches for assessing and monitoring the integrity of treatments implemented during the problem-solving process. A treatment-monitoring interview (TMI) is proposed as an …

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Functional Analysis And Reduction Of Inappropriate Spitting, Stacy L. Carter, John J. Wheeler Dec 2006

Functional Analysis And Reduction Of Inappropriate Spitting, Stacy L. Carter, John J. Wheeler

John J. Wheeler

Functional analysis was used to determine the possible function of inappropriate spitting behavior of
an adult woman who had been diagnosed with profound mental retardation. Results of an initial descriptive
assessment indicated a possible attention function and led to an attention-based intervention, which was
deemed ineffective at reducing the frequency of spitting. A follow-up functional analysis revealed an automatic
function and an intervention of medication prescribed for gastro-esophageal reflux markedly reduced the
frequency of inappropriate spitting. The implications for using functional analysis as a means of identifying
biological events such as medical illness are discussed.

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