An Evaluation of Treatment Integrity and Acceptability of Check & Connect

Abstract

The study reports the treatment integrity and acceptability of Check & Connect (C&C), after implementation by 234 adult mentors with 341 students with social, emotional, and behavioral problems. To address the gaps in the treatment acceptability literature, the study further explored (a) the relation between treatment integrity and treatment acceptability of C&C and (b) the predicted effects of variables investigated in the analog studies on mentors’ treatment acceptability ratings. Overall, mentors implemented C&C with high integrity perceived as an acceptable intervention. Regression analyses showed that mentors who perceived C&C as acceptable implemented it with significantly greater integrity than mentors with lower acceptability ratings. Dosage as well as student and mentor characteristics did not predict mentors’ treatment acceptability ratings. Implications for practice and research are discussed.

Stability and Predictors of Students’ Treatment Acceptability of Check & Connect Across Time

“…To date, only one study specifically examined whether the variables identified in the literature to influence treatment acceptability would hold true in C&C (Tsai & Kern, 2018). The results showed that the critical variables such as student behavior severity, students’ special education classification, and adults’ work experience did not predict C&C mentors’ acceptability ratings.…”