Medida De Adherencia

CASE t o o l s
Checklists
for Measuring
Adherence to
Resource-Based
Intervention
Practices

Instruments and Procedures
for Implementing Early Childhood
and Family Support Practices

introduction

This CASEtool includes descriptions of the development and use of the Resource-Based Intervention
Practices Checklists. The checklists are used to promote
practitioners’ability to employ practices that focus on
mobilization and provision of resources and supports to
individuals and families to achieve family desired outcomes (Dunst, Trivette, & Deal, 1994; Trivette, Dunst,
& Deal, 1997).

The paper includes four sections: (1) definition of
resource-based intervention practices, (2) description
of the development of the checklists, (3)description of
the checklists, and (4) explanation of how the checklists
can be used to promote practitioners’ understanding and
implementation of resource-based intervention practices. The reader is referred to Mott (2005a; 2005b; 2006)
for additional information about the conceptual and empirical foundations of resource-based intervention practices, sources of information related toresource-based
intervention practices, and results from a study that is
the basis of the items on the Resource-Based Intervention Practices Checklists.

Donald W. Mott

resource-Based intervention
Practices

Resource-based intervention practices constitute a
set of strategies that focus on mobilization and provision
of resources and supports to individuals and families to
achieve desiredoutcomes. In contrast to traditional service-based practices that tend to be deficit-based, professionally-centered, and foster dependency (see e.g.,
Kretzmann & McKnight, 1993; Sarason, Carroll, Maton, Cohen, & Lorentz, 1988), resource-based intervention practices are asset-based, community-based, and
both build upon and strengthen individual, family, and

This CASEtoolincludes descriptions of the
development and use of three ResourceBased Intervention Practices Checklists
for promoting practitioner understanding
and use of resource-based intervention
practices. The checklists include indicators for mobilizing sources of support and
resources, community resource mapping,
and community capacity building. The indicators are used to determine the extent
to whichpractitioners use practices that focus on provision of resources and supports
to individuals and families to achieve their
desired outcomes.

CASEtools is an electronic publication of the Center
for the Advanced Study of Excellence in Early
Childhood and Family Support Practices, Family,
Infant and Preschool Program, J. Iverson Riddle
Developmental Center, Morganton, NC. CASE is anapplied research center focusing on the characteristics
of evidence-based practices and methods for
promoting utilization of practices informed by research.
Copyright © 2006
Center for the Advanced Study of Excellence
in Early Childhood and Family Support Practices

February 2006

Volume 2, Number 3



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sources of support and resources

Sources of support and resources referto the full
range of possible types of help or assistance, such as potentially useful information, experiences, tangible items,
emotional and social support, instrumental assistance,
and opportunities that might be used to achieve outcomes
desired by an individual, family, or group. When using
resource-based intervention practices, practitioners assist family members inmobilizing informal and formal
resources and support that are needed and desired by the
family to accomplish desired outcomes. Practitioners
also assist individuals and families in learning the skills
needed to use resources and supports to accomplish desired outcomes without or with minimal professional assistance or guidance.

community capacity (Dunst, Trivette, & Deal, 1994;...