Consultation: Creating School-Based Interventions

Consultation skills are at the heart of school mental health work, whether it be counseling, social work, or school psychology. This practical, how-to book and its accompanying video highlight the strategies and processes used in consultation and helps to bridge the gap between research and practice. New in the second edition is a chapter of case studies and illustrations which features real examples of student-teacher behaviors and consultation assessments.

The video will feature a discussion about the consultation process and strategies that are used. Actual individual consultation interviews will follow. The interviews will highlight the strategies and processes used in consultation and the strategies and skills which are discussed in the book.

Don Dinkmeyer, Jr., Ph.D., is a Professor of Counseling and Student Affairs in the Graduate College of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He has been a school counselor, mental health counselor, and has trained helping professionals across North America for 25 years. He has served on two national taskforces on parent education. He recently received a Distinguished Service Achievement Award from the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (NASAP) in recognition of his more than two decades of work in the Adlerian community.

Jon Carlson, Psy.D., Ed.D., is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Governors State University, University Park, Illinois and a Psychologist with the Wellness Clinic in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He has authored 35 books, 100 articles and produced over 200 vidoes/DVDs. Four of his books explore the area of consultation, some dating back to the early 1970s, and he has worked for 20 years as a school psychologist and counselor at the Woods School in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.