Affiliation: | Assistant Professor Department of Education University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95615, USA Professor of Education Department of Education University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA Graduate Student School Psychology Department of Education University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA |
Abstract: | School-based and other mental health consultants are confronted with consultees who must adjust to the process of consultation by learning the parameters of the interaction. Consultees must learn how to act in this unique setting, must learn to use the consultant and the process for their own ends, and must learn about ways that they, themselves, contribute to problems which assail them. Consultation is successful to the extent that consultees come to a quick understanding of how to proceed. By being aware of what it is that the consultee must learn, the consultant may expedite the necessary insight. |