Treatment Integrity: An Essential—But Often Forgotten—Component of School-Based Interventions

Abstract

In this article, the authors introduce the construct of treatment integrity and illustrate the importance of treatment integrity as it relates to school-based intervention. Specifically, the authors address the following questions: What is treatment integrity? Why is it important to assess treatment integrity? How can treatment integrity be assessed? and What factors influence treatment integrity? Finally, the authors offer school personnel examples of ways to realistically assess treatment integrity at the classroom level.