Impacts of Integrity Failures on Common Reinforcement-Based Interventions

This presentation from the 2020 Michigan Autism Conference discusses the concept of treatment integrity, which refers to how closely interventions are implemented as designed. Despite calls for increased reporting and consideration of treatment integrity in research and clinical practice over the past two decades, it remains an overlooked topic. The speaker presents several studies evaluating treatment integrity levels in reinforcement-based interventions for challenging behavior, emphasizing the importance of assessing treatment integrity for creating sustainable change in behavior.