This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cebc4cw.org/
This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cebc4cw.org/
Pre-implementation Assessments to be given to organizations or providers in order to measure organizational or individual readiness:
No pre-implementation measures exist for the Coping Cat program.
Implementation Tools for the program (e.g., implementation guides or manuals):
There are therapist manuals (treatment manuals) for each of the several treatment programs (the individual Coping Cat program, group Coping Cat program, and for the C.A.T. Project). These manuals are all available from Workbook Publishing.
There are other training materials that have been recently developed and released, One is a training DVD, CBT4CBT, this is also available from Workbook Publishing.
Fidelity measures:
All of the following fidelity assessment processes require either contracting with the developer of the Coping Cat program (Philip C. Kendall, PhD) to have one of their treatment experts perform the task or having them train a designated person to be a treatment expert at the implementing site to perform the task.
A rigorous assessment would require taping all of the treatment sessions and having a treatment expert listen and rate all of the session tapes.
A less demanding approach, but an acceptable alternative, would be to tape all of the treatment sessions and then randomly select 20% of the tapes to be reviewed and checked by a treatment expert.
Assessing fidelity can also be accomplished by printing the session goals from the training manuals and having a treatment expert do an integrity check that focuses on whether each of the listed/printed goals was addressed.