A3+-+Consultation

=Artifact 3 - Consultation=

====Consultation is a role that excites me as a practitioner due to its ability to have a long term impact on both students and teachers. This artifact highlights my passion for consultation where I am able to be proactive and preventative in my position as a school psychologist. My general framework for consultation comes from what I consider to be the best aspects of several consultation theories.==== ====In general, I consider myself a behaviorist. I work under the tenet that all behavior comes from and is reinforced by the context is occurs in and the consequences that arise from its results (Brown, Pryzwansky, & Schulte, 2006). Behavioral consultation is therefore a theory from which I draw direction from during the consultation process and can be seen in my work below. I value the focus the behavioral consultation model brings to the consultation process by emphasizing the importance of identifying behavior that is observable and measureable. This artifact demonstrates my skill in identifying behaviors which leads to promoting changes in behavior that teachers are happy with and that can quantifiably demonstrate progress.==== ====While I apply the main principles of the behavioral model to my work, the major purposes of the Mental Health Consultation (MHC) approach are ones that ring true to me and are demonstrated in the artifact below, also. Some of the goals of the MHC include maximizing the impact our work on other professionals so that more clients can benefit (Brown, Pryzwansky, & Schulte, 2006). In a time where mental health and other school professionals are limited in number and availability it seems imperative to me that we train teachers who are in direct contact with students to have the largest impact possible, therefore increasing the number of students served. Hopefully, teachers will learn from consultations and then later be able to use their skills to impact more students than would be possible for any one professional to be individually involved with. This model also emphasizes the importance for the consultee to be personally responsible for the intervention as a way to increase not only their fidelity to the plan, but also to increase their skills for future use. Although the MHC approach was designed to focus on the mental health community, it’s goal of increasing the consultee’s skills is one that is very important to school based consultation as well, where the same issue of too many clients for professionals to serve also exists. Both the MHC and the Behavioral approach serve as a theoretical framework for my work as a consultant.====

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