The Michigan Business Assistance Corps (MBA Corps) was established by the University of Michigan Business School in 1990 to assist emerging democracies in Eastern Europe in successfully negotiating the process of economic privatization, while at the same time providing Michigan Business School graduate students with a unique international…

School counselors, psychologists, and administrators were surveyed in a three-state area to determine the relationship between the consultative/collaborative services within a comprehensive school counseling program. A description is provided of the three consultative/collaborative models (scientific/technological, human development, and…

Development by a university counseling center staff of a training procedure to help students interact productively in small groups to learn academic material is described. After refinement of the program (entitled Education Through Student Interaction), emphasis was placed on teaching faculty to train students by means of this procedure. (Author)

The column editor describes her role as a guidance consultant wherein she consulted with teachers about pupils whom she never saw. She recounts the case of Mrs. Applewhite'', a teacher bewildered by a child in her class who exhibited socially unacceptable behavior. The consultant allowed Mrs. Applewhite to discuss the problem and then supported…

The first essential is increased opportunities for heads and senior teachers to develop an understanding of the influence of roles and relationships upon the task of the school so that, in their turn, they may assist their colleagues, with outside help if necessary, to a similar understanding. (Author)

This report describes a two-year experience utilizing a consultation service which attempted to integrate health services at a privately financed early childhood education center located within the newly planned city of Columbia, Maryland. (Authors)

Suggests consultants provide counselors with training, crisis support, information, communication with academic community, and participation in research contributing to higher counseling standards. (Author)

Describes the federally funded program conducted by Afram Associates, Inc. which provides service to nine Parent Implemented Programs located in nine cities in six states. (MB)

Discussed is a contract", formulated by the teacher and her students at the suggestion of the consultant, designed to encourage less disruptive classroom behavior. The arrangement permits the student to learn or not to learn without having to cope with nagging by the teacher. (Author/CJ)

This paper describes the initial phase of behavioral consultation and presents nine objectives to be accomplished during the initial consultative interview. (Author/PN)

Examined the relationship of teacher life position, teacher dogmatism, perceived consultant facilitativeness, years of teacher teaching experience and number of consultations per year to the consultation outcomes of teacher satisfaction, teacher strength, and problem resolution. The consultant's perceived facilitativeness was the main predictor of…

Reports on a concerted effort by consultant-scholars to influence the portrayal of drinking on television by working cooperatively with media writers, directors, and producers, while avoiding the pitfalls of traditional pressure group practices. Content analyses of prime-time programs were used as the basis of the appeal to change media messages.…

Workshops have been used successfully to teach oral delivery consultation skills in a counselor training program. The workshop is offered as a training tool in consultation skills. The use and purpose of workshops are presented, and procedures are demonstrated within counselor education courses. Benefits to counselor trainees are discussed.…

Presents school consultation from the perspective of the network model. A network in the form of a teacher center, developed for teachers of gifted children, is described. The teacher center network is compared to a different network, and issues relevant to both instances are discussed. A case study is presented. (Author/BEF)