Treatment Integrity : A Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice in Applied Psychology

Treatment integrity, in its broadest sense, is the extent to which an intervention is implemented as intended. Over the past 3 decades, understanding of treatment integrity has greatly evolved. This book summarises the current state of our knowledge of treatment integrity on such topics as how it fits into the larger contexts of evidence-based practice and implementation science its relation to ethics and the law conceptual models, assessment, promotion, and application conceptual models of treatment integrity in the fields of medicine, prevention science, and health psychology assessment of treatment integrity itself how a conceptual model can inform the development of a comprehensive treatment integrity assessment system its use in practice and research in education and psychology Authoritative and up to date, this volume is a unique resource for all professionals supervising, providing, or evaluating intervention services, including researchers and practitioners in clinical, counselling, and school psychology; child and adolescent psychiatry; social work; communication disorders; special and general education; program evaluation; and educational leadership.