Data-Based Program Modification and the Launching of Careers

It is amazing how one small book can have such a large impact on one’s professional thinking and career. In 1982, we had both just recently become school psychology trainers at Lehigh University (Lentz was brand new) and prior to that had been involved in behaviorally oriented services, but not as school psychologists. We were not interested in the (at that time) traditional school psychology model and badly wanted to move the Lehigh model toward a behaviorally oriented, intervention-based program. As we were in the midst of this complicated process (more than we both had naively anticipated), we came across