School counselors recognize consultation as one of the most important functions of their services. In this study, I explored the perceptions of non-teacher trained early career school counselors during consultation with teachers. School counselors' consultation with teachers can promote the success of the students with whom they work. While…

School psychologists can impact student outcomes by consulting with teams around data. The current study investigated the effects of consultation with Professional Learning Communities (PLC) teacher teams. The study included four teacher teams, observing their PLC practices and providing consultation. Each team was observed with a…

In this article, we investigate how the shift towards inclusive education in Danish schools changes and affects the ways in which educational-psychological advisory service (in Danish, PPR) units and school staff collaborate. Since inclusion is generally a matter of ensuring that every child can be accommodated within the mainstream school system,…

Individualized consultation is defined as one person (consultant) working with another person (consultee) to benefit a third (client). Learning how to be a consultant is a process with developmental stages ranging from novice to expert. The current study focuses on an integrated skills-based training experience for those in the novice stage. This…

School-based psychological services are typically provided through a triadic model of consultation in which a school psychologist works directly with a teacher or school staff member to address the academic, behavioral, or mental health concerns of a student. With advances in current technology, school psychologists have the capacity to use…

This article addresses the fact that student-teacher relationships uncover many clinical issues, such as trauma. It looks at statistics of how prevalent mental health disorders and problems are and then shows that no teacher can handle all of the kinds of problems that will emerge in open relationships with the students. They need to do this work…

Increasingly, university and college counselors are sought out by their institution's sports coaches for assistance in achieving team goals. Traditional sport psychology models that have the individual athlete as their primary focus are insufficient frameworks for team-level consultations. The authors believe that systemic approaches may provide…

In this article, four vignettes are presented and deconstructed in order to demonstrate that school counselors are advocates, collaborators, and leaders when engaged as consultants. School counselor consultation appears to be a complex process based on a student advocacy disposition shared by consultees, and the process is a collaborative one…

The 2004 authorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act affords an opportunity to shift the classification of Learning Disabilities (LD) from a "refer-test-place" to a Response-to-Intervention (RtI) service delivery model. As a result, there are implications for the professional activities of school…

Counselors in one school district sought to organize policies and procedures into one useful notebook for all members of staff, designed to supplement and complement, rather than replace, counselor-teacher team efforts. Books were distributed to teachers, and, in guidance evaluation survey, 50% of high school teachers indicated they had used the…

Research has shown that teachers desire assistance from school psychologists in dealing with student problems. A study was conducted to determine how school psychologists respond to teacher requests for assistance. Members of the National Association of School Psychologists were mailed one of six descriptions of a student from a concerned teacher.…

Success in collaborative school-based consultation depends on whether teachers implement interventions suggested by consultants. Rational Persuasion (RP) has been identified as one potentially effective way to influence consultee perceptions about proposed interventions. Investigates whether presenting RP importance and objections for behavioral…

Contends that current conditions in education indicate that a change is needed in the counselor role. Defines consultation, describes a number of current models of consultation, identifies problems in implementing the consultant role, makes recommendations for resolving these problems, and suggests future trends in the use of consultation. (LLL)

In this exploratory study, the communicative process in conjoint behavioral consultation was investigated with a coding system designed to measure two dimensions of communication (i.e., influence and involvement). Results indicated that CBC meetings were characterized by a high degree of affiliation among participants; however, few significant…

Considers the school counselor's role as consultant. Describes step-by-step procedure for the stage of problem clarification and identification for behavioral consultants. Assumes that each problem may be defined in varied ways and that problem definition is not considered useful unless it is accepted as such by both the teacher (consultee) and…