Practical Monitoring of Treatment Fidelity: Examples From a Team-Based Intervention for People With Early Psychosis

Mental health programs can address many components of fidelity with routinely available data. Information from client interviews can be used to corroborate these administrative data. This column describes a practical approach to measuring fidelity that used both data sources. The approach was used in the Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode (RAISE) Connection Program, a team-based intervention designed to implement evidence-based practices for people experiencing early psychosis suggestive of schizophrenia. Data indicated that the intervention was implemented as intended, including program elements related to shared decision making and a range of evidence-based clinical interventions.