School Consultation: Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Practice (Hardcover, 3, 2010)

Preface.- Section One: Background.- Introduction to Consultation.- The Effectiveness of Human Services Consultation.- Historical Influences on the Human Services Consultant Role.- Historical Influences on the School Consultant Role.- Reconceptualizing Consultation for Today's Schools.- The Rest of the Book.- Problem Solving and Response-to-Intervention.- Establishing a Context for RTI and the Modern Practice of School Consultation.- Problem Solving.- Response-to-Intervention.- Conclusion.- Promoting Change in Schools.- Changing Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behaviors within Consultation.- Helping the Consultee to Change.- General Strategies for Effecting Changes in Human Systems.- The Bases of Social Power and Their Application to School Consultation.- Other Means of Influence.- A Power/Interaction Model of Interpersonal Influence and Its Application to School Consultation.- Conclusion.- The School as a Setting for Consultation.- Organizational Traditions in the Public School System.- The Service Structure of Public Schools.- School Consultation from an Administrative Perspective.- Section Two: Consultation Processes And Outcomes.- Bases of an Integrated Model of School Consultation.- Community Mental Health and Mental Health Consultation Bases.- Behavioral Psychology and Behavioral Consultation Bases.- Summary of the Bases of an Integrated Model of School Consultation.- Achieving Entry in School Consultation: Entering the Service Delivery Network.- Model Description and Application.- A Critical Appraisal of Consultation Models.- An Integrated Model of School Consultation.- Assessment in School Consultation.- Functional Behavior Assessment.- Systematic Formative Evaluation.- Brief Experimental Analysis.- Selecting Effective School-Based Interventions.- Effectiveness of Intervention Alternatives.- Conceptual Models of Children's Learning and Behavior Problems.- Implementation Issues.- Section Three: Key Participants InConsultation.- Teachers as Consultees.- Perspectives on Teachers and Teaching.- Perspectives on Teachers and School Consultation.- Increasing the Effectiveness of Consultation with Teachers.- Providing Consultative Support to Teachers.- Students as Clients.- Legislation Governing Service Delivery in the Schools.- Educational Approaches to Classification.- A Contextual Model of Student Achievement.- Consultation Case Study.- Problem Identification Interview: February 18.- Problem Analysis Interview: March 4.- Problem Evaluation Interview: April 9.- Epilogue: The Effective Practice of School Consultation.- References.- Author Index.- Subject Index