School psychologists and the practice of consultation

✍ Scribed by Roy Martin; Joel Meyers

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 447 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0033-3085
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6807(198010)17:4<478::aid-pits2310170411>3.0.co;2-9

✦ Synopsis

This article reports the results of an investigation of the consultation practices of school psychologists. It was found that consultation is one of the school psychologist's major professional functions, and that psychologists feel that other school personnel want them to spend more of their professional time consulting than they do at present. Client-centered consultation is the dominant variety practiced by the respondents, and they tend to conceptualize their consultation efforts in a humanistic (Rogcrian) or behavioristic framework. Age and salary are factors in the amount and type of consultation done. Most of the respondents had little formal training in consultation and have learned what they know on the job. 'The survey was conducted by the Division 16 Corresponding Committee on Consultation with the support of Division 16 of the American Psychological Association.