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School Consultation

Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Practice

  • Promotes a scientist-practitioner viewpoint by providing guidance for the practice of school consultation based on research findings
  • Offers a preliminary integration of the consultation literature with the emerging RTI/problem-solving literature
  • Considers school consultation as a type of interpersonal influence process, and then applies relevant literature on behavioral change to explain and affect change in consultees, clients, and classrooms
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology (ICCP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction to Consultation

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 3-15
    3. Problem Solving and Response to Intervention

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 17-30
    4. Promoting Change in Schools

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 31-61
    5. The School as a Setting for Consultation

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 63-80
  3. Consultation Processes and Outcomes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 82-82
    2. Bases of an Integrated Model of School Consultation

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 83-103
    3. Model Description and Application

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 105-125
    4. Assessment in School Consultation

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 127-139
    5. Selecting Effective School-Based Interventions

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 141-155
  4. Key Participants In Consultation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 158-158
    2. Teachers as Consultees

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 159-176
    3. Students as Clients

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 177-192
    4. Consultation Case Study

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 193-216
    5. Epilog: The Effective Practice of School Consultation

      • William P. Erchul, Brian K. Martens
      Pages 217-219
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 221-258

About this book

Since its emergence during the 1960s, school consultation has become an important vehicle for delivering psychological and educational services. Cooperative efforts between skilled consultants and teachers, rooted in the principles of problem solving, social influence, and professional development, enhance student learning and adjustment while encouraging consultees to be more effective and proactive in their practice.

The Third Edition of School Consultation: Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Practice shows in expert detail how this relationship works by synthesizing mental health and behavioral models of consultation with the most effective evidence-based practices (e.g., implementation support, response to intervention) informing the field today. The authors provide real-world contexts for all participants in the equation—consultants, teachers, students, staff, and the school itself—and thoroughly review consultation processes and outcomes for a contemporary practice-oriented approach suited to the new consultant, trainee, or researcher.

Key features of the Third Edition include:

  • An integrated mental health/behavioral model for school consultation.
  • An organizational study of the school as a setting for consultation.
  • Assessment issues and strategies particularly relevant to school consultation.
  • Approaches to providing teachers with implementation support.
  • Conceptual models for selecting academic and behavioral interventions.
  • Administrative perspectives on school consultation.
  • A real, transcribed case study analyzed by the authors.

In the tradition of its predecessors, School Consultation, Third Edition, is a confidence-building tool for practitioners in school psychology, clinical child psychology, educational specialties, school counseling, special education, and school social work as well as a trusted reference for researchersin these fields.

Reviews

From the reviews of the third edition:

“Psychologists have become essential consultants in the school system and, although programs have taken root to train behavioral health professionals to work in the school system, this book provides a different approach to effectively administering that role. The intention is to instruct novice psychologists in the art and science of the unique consultant role they will play in the school system. … intended mainly for school and child clinical psychologists, but also for other clinical or developmental psychologists, school social workers, and special educators.” (Christopher J. Graver, Doody’s Review Service, September, 2010)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

    William P. Erchul

  • Dept. Psychology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA

    Brian K. Martens

About the authors

William P. Erchul, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at North Carolina State University, where he served as Director of the School Psychology Program from 1987 to 2004. He received his B.A. in Psychology and Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a specialization in School Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked for the Human Interaction Research Institute in Los Angeles and has been a consultant to various North Carolina school systems, public agencies, and private businesses. Dr. Erchul is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of School Psychology, a recipient of APA's Lightner Witmer Award (given in recognition of early career research contributions to the field of School Psychology), an elected member of the Society for the Study of School Psychology, a recipient of the North Carolina School Psychology Association's Excellence in Staff Development Award, and has been recognized as an outstanding faculty researcher at NCSU. He has been President of the North Carolina Inter-University Council on School Psychology; Vice-President of Publications, Communications, and Convention Affairs of APA’s Division of School Psychology; and Executive Producer of The Conversation Series for the Division of School Psychology. Dr. Erchul is board certified in school psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and has served as President of the American Academy of School Psychology. His primary research program centers on interpersonal processes and outcomes associated with psychological consultation. Dr. Erchul has produced approximately 100 journal articles, book chapters, and other scholarly works, as well as three books. He has been associate editor of School Psychology Quarterly and guest editor of special issues of the School Psychology Review and the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation.He also has served on the editorial review boards of five scholarly journals.

Brian K. Martens, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and Associate Chair of the Psychology Department at Syracuse University. He received his B.S. in psychology from Colorado State University, and earned his Ph.D. in 1985 from the APA-approved program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Martens’ research is concerned with translating findings from basic operant studies into effective school-based interventions, functional assessment and treatment of children’s classroom behavior problems, and the instructional hierarchy as a sequenced approach to skill building. His scholarly record includes more than 100 published research articles, books, chapters, and invited reviews in the areas of applied behavior analysis, school consultation, and instructional intervention. Dr. Martens is a past Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and School Psychology Quarterly, and currently serves as a Guest Associate Editor or Editorial Board member for five journals. Dr. Martens received the Lightner Witmer Award from Division 16 of APA in 1990, was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year at University College in 1995, and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. He was elected to Fellow status in Division 16 of APA in 1996, elected as a member of the Society for the Study of School Psychology in 2001, and named one of 90 Distinguished Alumni from the Teachers College at the University of Nebraska in 1997. Dr. Martens received the Editorial Appreciation Award from School Psychology Review in 2002 as well as the Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award from Syracuse University in 2006.

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