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Classes and workshops for teachers in mental health principles and techniques are abundant but rarely have they been taken directly to the teachers' school or classroom. The program discussed is a pilot study combining the didactic structure and credit of a college seminar with the immediate relevance, support, and training of a traditional in-school consultation. Teachers were trained in the implementation of functional-behavioral intervention skills. Evaluative data collected from attitudinal questionnaires received from the teachers and records obtained from teacher implemented interventions support the effectiveness of this model in training teachers as therapeutic change agents in their classrooms.
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Canter, L., Paulson, T. A college credit model of in-school consultation: A functional behavioral training program. Community Ment Health J 10, 268–275 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01410772
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