A component analysis of the Resilience Education Program: A Tier 2 intervention for internalizing behavior concerns.

The current pilot study examines student outcomes associated with receipt of the Resilience Education Program (REP), a Tier 2 school-based intervention designed to support students with internalizing behavior concerns. REP is a three-part intervention that incorporates small-group cognitive-behavioral instruction (CBI), a modified check-in/check-out reinforcement-based mentorship program (CICO), and resilient families (RF), a parent skills training program. A component analysis was conducted to determine which combination of the three main components of REP was most efficacious in driving change in target outcomes. Participants included 57 students (ages 10-14 years old) from six urban schools in the midwestern United States. Schools were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions. Condition 1 included CBI + CICO, Condition 2 included CBI + RF, and Condition 3 included all three components (CBI + CICO + RF). Through a component analysis of REP, findings suggested that students in the CBI + CICO condition demonstrated practically significant decreases in students' internalizing behavior concerns than the CBI + RF and CBI + CICO + RF conditions. Meaningful improvements were noted for students' internalizing concerns across multiple conditions. Implementation and social validity data indicated that school mental health professionals and educators could implement and adapt REP, finding REP to be acceptable and feasible. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).