Dean L Fixsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4228307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dean L Fixsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dean L |
| FAMILY NAME | Fixsen |
| SIGNATURE | FIXSEN D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0626-6523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Is implementation science a science? Not yet
Getting the science right for implementation is critical for making the processes for improving outcomes more predictable and effective in global public health. Unfortunately, “implementation science” has become a catchphrase for ideas, assumptions, and findings concerning the science to service gap and how to close it. The purpose of this paper is to explore the dimensions of a “science of implementation” that meets the definitions of a science …
Learning Active Implementation Frameworks: The role of implementation teams in a case study from Pakistan
In Pakistan, although coverage of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) services has increased, the attributable disease burden remains high, indicating quality of these services remains suboptimal. To address this quality gap, challenges associated with the implementation of MNCH services will need to be addressed and effective use of the various MNCH guidelines will need to be supported, evaluated, and continuously improved. Even though th…
Scaling Effective Innovations
Implementation and scaling evidence-based practices and other effective innovations is a challenge in criminology as it is in all social sciences. Yet, scaling is essential to achieving socially significant outcomes envisioned in state and federal legislation and recommendations for reform (Charles Colson Task Force, 2016). In their article, Christopher J. Sullivan, Brandon C. Welsh, and Omeed S. Ilchi (2017, this issue) provide one of the few at…
Implementation Science
Improving Programs and Outcomes: Implementation Frameworks and Organization Change
This article presents recent refinements to implementation constructs and frameworks. It updates and clarifies the frequently cited study conducted by the National Implementation Research Network that introduced these frameworks for application in diverse endeavors. As such, it may serve as a historical marker in the rapidly developing science and language of implementation. Within this presentation, two studies alternate as examples of how these…
Statewide Implementation of Evidence-Based Programs
Evidence-based programs will be useful to the extent they produce benefits to individuals on a socially significant scale. It appears the combination of effective programs and effective implementation methods is required to assure consistent uses of programs and reliable benefits to children and families. To date, focus has been placed primarily on generating evidence and determining degrees of rigor required to qualify practices and programs as …
Mobilizing Communities for Implementing Evidence‐Based Youth Violence Prevention Programming: A Commentary
Evidence‐based programs have struggled for acceptance in human service settings. Information gleaned from these experiences indicates that implementation is the missing link in the science to service chain. The science and practice of implementation is progressing and can inform approaches to full and effective uses of youth violence prevention programs nationally. Implementation Teams that know (a) innovations, (b) implementation best practices,…
Specifying and reporting complex behaviour change interventions: The need for a scientific method
Complex behaviour change interventions are not well described; when they are described, the terminology used is inconsistent. This constrains scientific replication, and limits the subsequent introduction of successful interventions. Implementation Science is introducing a policy of initially encouraging and subsequently requiring the scientific reporting of complex behaviour change interventions.
Core Implementation Components
The failure of better science to readily produce better services has led to increasing interest in the science and practice of implementation. The results of recent reviews of implementation literature and best practices are summarized in this article. Two frameworks related to implementation stages and core implementation components are described and presented as critical links in the science to service chain. It is posited that careful attentio…
Marketing your product: The psychologist as communicator
Marketing your product: The psychologist as communicator
Procedures for developing training programs in large-scale settings
The teaching-family model: Research and dissemination in a service program
The Teaching-Family Model: Working with Runaways
Behavioral Approaches to Treatment in the Crime and Delinquency Field
Empirical, practical, and ethical issues pertaining to the use of behavior modification approaches in the crime and delinquency area are discussed. In reviewing specific procedures and programs, we emphasize a number of critical components for behavior modification programs, including: (a) procedures for programming generalization of treatment effects to the natural environment, (b) self‐government due process systems, (c) safeguards for human an…
Contingent and Noncontingent Schedules of Continuous and Partial Reward in Rats
The effects of contingent reward (R) and nonreward (N) and noncontingent reward (r) and nonreward (n) on extinction performance were investigated. Both R and N were delivered contingently on a runway running response while r and n were delivered by placing Ss directly into the goal box. In acquisition, the 32 albino rats were given 5 contingent trials and 4 noncontingent placements each day for 2 days. Group CC received the daily sequence RrRrRrR…
N -Length and Intertrial Reward
2 experiments investigating the effects of intertrial reward on resistance to extinction following partial reward schedules containing N-lengths (number of consecutive nonrewards preceding a rewarded trial) of 1, 2, or 3. It was found that intertrial rewards completely eliminated the partial reinforcement effect for all N-lengths when run times were considered but had no effect on goal times. These data were discussed in terms of their relevance …
Intertrial Procedures and Resistance to Extinction
The effects of intertrial-placement and -running to reward or nonreward on resistance to extinction were investigated within a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design in which first trial reward condition (R or N), intertrial treatment (run or place), and intertrial reward condition (R or N) were the three factors. The 48 albino rats were given two acquisition trials daily for 8 days with the intertrial treatments separating the two daily trials. The second d…
Free Operant Response Reinstatement during Extinction and Time-Contingent (DRO) Rewards
3 experiments are reported on the reinstatement of a bar-press response by rats during free operant extinction. After extended training on a VR schedule of food reward, an extinction procedure in which reward was negatively correlated with the bar-press response was initiated, i.e., reward was presented after 4 min of no bar presses. Results indicated that pause-contingent reward served to increase the rate of responding beyond what could be expl…
Core Implementation Components
The failure of better science to readily produce better services has led to increasing interest in the science and practice of implementation. The results of recent reviews of implementation literature and best practices are summarized in this article. Two frameworks related to implementation stages and core implementation components are described and presented as critical links in the science to service chain. It is posited that careful attentio…
Improving Programs and Outcomes: Implementation Frameworks and Organization Change
This article presents recent refinements to implementation constructs and frameworks. It updates and clarifies the frequently cited study conducted by the National Implementation Research Network that introduced these frameworks for application in diverse endeavors. As such, it may serve as a historical marker in the rapidly developing science and language of implementation. Within this presentation, two studies alternate as examples of how these…
Mobilizing Communities for Implementing Evidence‐Based Youth Violence Prevention Programming: A Commentary
Evidence‐based programs have struggled for acceptance in human service settings. Information gleaned from these experiences indicates that implementation is the missing link in the science to service chain. The science and practice of implementation is progressing and can inform approaches to full and effective uses of youth violence prevention programs nationally. Implementation Teams that know (a) innovations, (b) implementation best practices,…
Scaling Effective Innovations
Implementation and scaling evidence-based practices and other effective innovations is a challenge in criminology as it is in all social sciences. Yet, scaling is essential to achieving socially significant outcomes envisioned in state and federal legislation and recommendations for reform (Charles Colson Task Force, 2016). In their article, Christopher J. Sullivan, Brandon C. Welsh, and Omeed S. Ilchi (2017, this issue) provide one of the few at…
Behavioral Approaches to Treatment in the Crime and Delinquency Field
Empirical, practical, and ethical issues pertaining to the use of behavior modification approaches in the crime and delinquency area are discussed. In reviewing specific procedures and programs, we emphasize a number of critical components for behavior modification programs, including: (a) procedures for programming generalization of treatment effects to the natural environment, (b) self‐government due process systems, (c) safeguards for human an…
Free Operant Response Reinstatement during Extinction and Time-Contingent (DRO) Rewards
3 experiments are reported on the reinstatement of a bar-press response by rats during free operant extinction. After extended training on a VR schedule of food reward, an extinction procedure in which reward was negatively correlated with the bar-press response was initiated, i.e., reward was presented after 4 min of no bar presses. Results indicated that pause-contingent reward served to increase the rate of responding beyond what could be expl…
Intertrial Procedures and Resistance to Extinction
The effects of intertrial-placement and -running to reward or nonreward on resistance to extinction were investigated within a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design in which first trial reward condition (R or N), intertrial treatment (run or place), and intertrial reward condition (R or N) were the three factors. The 48 albino rats were given two acquisition trials daily for 8 days with the intertrial treatments separating the two daily trials. The second d…
N -Length and Intertrial Reward
2 experiments investigating the effects of intertrial reward on resistance to extinction following partial reward schedules containing N-lengths (number of consecutive nonrewards preceding a rewarded trial) of 1, 2, or 3. It was found that intertrial rewards completely eliminated the partial reinforcement effect for all N-lengths when run times were considered but had no effect on goal times. These data were discussed in terms of their relevance …
Contingent and Noncontingent Schedules of Continuous and Partial Reward in Rats
The effects of contingent reward (R) and nonreward (N) and noncontingent reward (r) and nonreward (n) on extinction performance were investigated. Both R and N were delivered contingently on a runway running response while r and n were delivered by placing Ss directly into the goal box. In acquisition, the 32 albino rats were given 5 contingent trials and 4 noncontingent placements each day for 2 days. Group CC received the daily sequence RrRrRrR…
Behavioral Approaches to Treatment in the Crime and Delinquency Field
Empirical, practical, and ethical issues pertaining to the use of behavior modification approaches in the crime and delinquency area are discussed. In reviewing specific procedures and programs, we emphasize a number of critical components for behavior modification programs, including: (a) procedures for programming generalization of treatment effects to the natural environment, (b) self‐government due process systems, (c) safeguards for human an…
The Teaching-Family Model: Working with Runaways
The teaching-family model: Research and dissemination in a service program
Procedures for developing training programs in large-scale settings
Marketing your product: The psychologist as communicator
Marketing your product: The psychologist as communicator
Specifying and reporting complex behaviour change interventions: The need for a scientific method
Complex behaviour change interventions are not well described; when they are described, the terminology used is inconsistent. This constrains scientific replication, and limits the subsequent introduction of successful interventions. Implementation Science is introducing a policy of initially encouraging and subsequently requiring the scientific reporting of complex behaviour change interventions.
Core Implementation Components
The failure of better science to readily produce better services has led to increasing interest in the science and practice of implementation. The results of recent reviews of implementation literature and best practices are summarized in this article. Two frameworks related to implementation stages and core implementation components are described and presented as critical links in the science to service chain. It is posited that careful attentio…
Mobilizing Communities for Implementing Evidence‐Based Youth Violence Prevention Programming: A Commentary
Evidence‐based programs have struggled for acceptance in human service settings. Information gleaned from these experiences indicates that implementation is the missing link in the science to service chain. The science and practice of implementation is progressing and can inform approaches to full and effective uses of youth violence prevention programs nationally. Implementation Teams that know (a) innovations, (b) implementation best practices,…
Statewide Implementation of Evidence-Based Programs
Evidence-based programs will be useful to the extent they produce benefits to individuals on a socially significant scale. It appears the combination of effective programs and effective implementation methods is required to assure consistent uses of programs and reliable benefits to children and families. To date, focus has been placed primarily on generating evidence and determining degrees of rigor required to qualify practices and programs as …
Improving Programs and Outcomes: Implementation Frameworks and Organization Change
This article presents recent refinements to implementation constructs and frameworks. It updates and clarifies the frequently cited study conducted by the National Implementation Research Network that introduced these frameworks for application in diverse endeavors. As such, it may serve as a historical marker in the rapidly developing science and language of implementation. Within this presentation, two studies alternate as examples of how these…
Implementation Science
Scaling Effective Innovations
Implementation and scaling evidence-based practices and other effective innovations is a challenge in criminology as it is in all social sciences. Yet, scaling is essential to achieving socially significant outcomes envisioned in state and federal legislation and recommendations for reform (Charles Colson Task Force, 2016). In their article, Christopher J. Sullivan, Brandon C. Welsh, and Omeed S. Ilchi (2017, this issue) provide one of the few at…
Learning Active Implementation Frameworks: The role of implementation teams in a case study from Pakistan
In Pakistan, although coverage of Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) services has increased, the attributable disease burden remains high, indicating quality of these services remains suboptimal. To address this quality gap, challenges associated with the implementation of MNCH services will need to be addressed and effective use of the various MNCH guidelines will need to be supported, evaluated, and continuously improved. Even though th…
Is implementation science a science? Not yet
Getting the science right for implementation is critical for making the processes for improving outcomes more predictable and effective in global public health. Unfortunately, “implementation science” has become a catchphrase for ideas, assumptions, and findings concerning the science to service gap and how to close it. The purpose of this paper is to explore the dimensions of a “science of implementation” that meets the definitions of a science …
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