Psychological Consultation and Collaboration in School and Community Settings (School Counseling) - Hardcover

Dougherty, A. Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0495507806 ISBN 13: 9780495507802

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2008

Synopsis

With Dougherty's PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSULTATION AND COLLABORATION IN SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS, 5e, you will see how human service professionals help others work more effectively to fulfill their work-related or caretaking responsibilities to individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This practical text uses a proven generic model for application, surveys various approaches to consultation, examines the organizational context of consultation, and reviews the numerous ethical and professional challenges that today's consultants face. By following this book's structure, you can develop or refine your own personal model of consultation. Numerous new and proven case studies bring concepts to life. A new focus on prevention, more information on school-based consulting and working with non-mainstream families, and some of the latest qualitative data gathering techniques and evaluation methods more thoroughly prepare you for professional success.

About this title

About the Author:

A. Michael Dougherty Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Counseling and former Dean of the College of Education and Allied Professions at Western Carolina University (WCU) in Cullowhee, North Carolina. During his tenure as dean, WCU's teacher education programs were recipients of both the AASCU Christa McAuliffe Award and the ATE Distinguished Program in Teacher Education Award. He is author of Psychological Consultation and Collaboration in School and Community Settings (6th Edition, 2014) and Casebook of Psychological Consultation and Collaboration in School and Community Settings (6th Edition, 2014) both published by Brooks/Cole-Cengage Publishing Company. Dougherty has published a large number of articles on consultation and on school counseling. His major current research interests are in the area of interpersonal processes in consultation and collaboration. He has consulted, taught courses, and made presentations in a variety of international settings including Barbados, Colombia, Cypress, El Salvador, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, and Jordan.

Review:

"This is a process-oriented text with wide application to the field. Students find the organization of the book and the language easy to grasp."

"Well organized and well written. Free of jargon, but full of important concepts of consulting from an institutional point of view."

"Excellent reference for anyone doing consulting in helping professions and/or human services."

"Very thorough textbook that incorporates up-to-date literature and research, presented in a format that helps the novice practitioner learn the step-by-step how-to's of consultation."

About this edition

• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0495507806
• ISBN 13: 9780495507802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 416