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School Consultation with Asian American Children and Families

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A significant number of California public school students are of Asian decent. School consultation is an effective service model for school psychologists to assist the growing number of Asian-American students who require services, yet little information is available in relation to school consultation with Asian-American children and families. This article describes some traditional Asian-American cultural characteristics as these interact with existing consultation skills as well as modifications to school consultation approaches which are culturally appropriate for Asian-American children and families in the school setting.

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  1. Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, CSUN, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330, USA

    Shari Tarver Behring PhD (Assistant professor at California State University, Northridge in the school psychology and school counseling programs) & Rosemary Tom Gelinas MS (newly credentialed school psychologist in the Los Angeles Unified school district)

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Tarver Behring, S., Gelinas, R.T. School Consultation with Asian American Children and Families. Contemp School Psychol 1, 13–20 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341088

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