The Resilience Education Program: Examining the Efficacy of a Tier 2 Internalizing Intervention

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Abstract

This study reports on the results of a study to evaluate the Resilience Education Program: a brief Tier 2 intervention including small-group cognitive-behavioral instruction, paired with a modified Check In/Check Out procedure. Elementary school students demonstrating early indicators of internalizing behavior concerns participated in a multiple-baseline single-case design to evaluate intervention effects. Visual analysis and effect size estimates were used in evaluating intervention effects relative to baseline conditions for each student. Results indicated REP yielded a moderate intervention effect for two out of three students (Tau-U = .72 and .68), each of whom exhibited an immediate reduction in internalizing behavior. Both students demonstrated an absence of negative behaviors in the maintenance phase. Educators rated REP as a socially valid intervention.

Authors

• Katie Eklund, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Stephen Kilgus, University of Wisconsin-Madison