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School consultation is a process for providing psychological and educational services in which a specialist (consultant) works cooperatively with a staff member (consultee) to improve the learning and adjustment of a student (client) or a group of students. During face-to-face interactions, the consultant helps the consultee through systematic problem solving, social influence, and professional support. In turn, the consultee helps the client by selecting, implementing, and evaluating school-based interventions. In all cases, school consultation serves a remedial function and has the potential to serve a preventive function. In this volume, the authors combine the most useful and/or empirically validated principles from mental health and behavioural consultation with practices shown to be effective in contemporary consultation research (that is, behaviour analysis, social influence, and implementation support).; In so doing, the authors describe when and how to apply these principles in response to a wide range of consultee and client needs, and offer a thorough discussion of the realities inherent in providing services within a school organizational context. This second edition also includes expanded coverage on the following topics: implications of the 1997 IDEA Amendments for school consultation; empirically validated approaches to the support and development task; methods for conducting a functional behavioural assessment; a listing of instructional interventions; teacher shortage, recruitment and retention issues; prereferral intervention teams and programs; strategies to increase teacher skill transfer and maintenance; and inclusion of new research studies that inform the effective practice of school consultation.

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