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Treatment Implementation in Child Behavior Therapy and Education |
| Tuesday, May 31, 2016 |
| 3:00 PM–3:50 PM |
| Grand Ballroom AB, Hyatt Regency, Gold East |
| Area: PRA; Domain: Service Delivery |
| Instruction Level: Intermediate |
| CE Instructor: George H. Noell, Ph.D. |
| Chair: Mark D. Shriver (Munroe-Meyer Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center) |
| GEORGE H. NOELL (Louisiana State University) |
 Dr. George H. Noell is a professor of psychology at Louisiana State University and Director of the doctoral program in school psychology. His research has focused on improving the quality and implementation of treatment plans for children in need of behavior therapy and academic intervention. Dr. Noell has been engaged in educational policy work that has sought to develop data analytic systems that time sensitive and long term policy making. He has been engaged with partners in Louisiana and nationally examining methods for assessing the quality of teacher preparation. Dr. Noell’s scholarship has been acknowledged by election to scholarly societies, awards, research journal editorial board appointments, and an appointment as editor-in-chief. |
| Abstract: The existing scientific literature strongly suggests that the most effective interventions for children and youth typically require active implementation of treatment in their natural environments by in-vivo care providers. These findings align with the practice of applied behavior analysis. Research over the last two decades in particular has demonstrated that simply providing care providers verbal directions is frequently insufficient to assure treatment implementation. This session will focus on findings relevant to assuring implementation of intervention plans in the natural environment with a particular focus on teachers as the treatment agents. The session will describe conceptual issues surrounding the assessment and assurance of treatment integrity in applied settings. Additionally, the session will review findings regarding procedures that have been found to be effective across studies in supporting intervention implementation as well as often repeated hypotheses about factors mediating treatment implementation that have not been supported by data. The session will conclude with a focus on future directions and the application of a behavior analytic science of treatment implementation across contexts. |
| Target Audience: Practitioners and researchers interested in the challenges of treatment implementation in the natural environment and the development of a behavior analytic approach to implementation. |
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the presentation, the participant will be able to: (1) distinguish between treatment integrity as an experimental and applied construct; (2) identify effective evidence based procedures to support treatment implementation; (3) distinguish between plausible hypotheses that have been advanced around treatment implementation and functional relationships that have been demonstrated. |
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