Tech. for Systems in Consultation
•Collaborative Consultation is a means to an end, the means being the collaborative generation of effective and creative interventions, with the end being improved functioning for a target child or children and generalization of techniques by teachers or other school professionals to help other children in a school
•Client focused or system of concern or consultee centered Consultation with a focus on the identified person/area
•Instructional Consultation has a focus on instruction
Consultative Models
Problem-solving model in consultation involves identification of the problem identification, problem assessment, intervention, and evaluation
Key professional skills in consultation (1 of 3)
An act that made it clear that parents are an integral part of the educational progress and must be partners with schools in educating children
No Child Left Behind Act of 2002
is a multisystemic, comprehensive family intervention that is manualized for use with substance abuse and co-occurring disorders; cognitive behavioral therapy often used
Multidimensional Family Therapy
Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response, Recovery
Identify the five mission areas of crisis preparedness:
•Expert Consultation emphases Tier 1 activities
•Behavioral Consultation refers to the application of specific problem-solving steps to increase or decrease a specific, well-defined behavior. The consultation framework includes (1) defining the problem with the context of a behavioral team, (2) assess the function of the behavior and the mechanisms that reinforce it, (3) develop a targeted intervention, and (4) evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention
Consultation Models
Ecological model in consultation interplays between counseling and the consultation roles mindful of the interplay with other layers, including the microsystems of the child
Key professional skills in consultation (1 of 3)
Replaced NCLB- Requiring the districts to establish its expectations and objectives for meaningful parent and family engagement and that it carry out at least one of the following strategies to engage families effectively
(a) professional development
(b) home-based programs, for school staff (may include parents)
(c ) information dissemination
(d) collaboration with community organization
Every Student Succeeds Act
resources that focus on school focused, practical, and case-oriented, and cultural appropriate modes for connecting with schools
Family Engagement in Schools
.Minimal response, building-level response, district-level response, regional-level response
What are the four response levels for a school crisis/ICS team response?
•Conjoint behavioral consultation refers to an extension of behavioral consultation so that caregivers at school and home are included in the problem-solving collaboration
•Mental health Consultation like counseling is focused on intrapersonal variables (internal communications or perceptions)
•Consultee-centered Consultation includes interventions that are nonprescriptive rather than prescriptive; the consultation process contributes to new knowledge that makes problems possible to resolve
•Ecological systems approach focuses on evaluation of behavior, cognition, and environment, including the multiple and interacting systems within which the client as student and the teacher
Consultation Models
provides a graphic representation of a family tree,displays detailed data on the relations among individuals
Genogram
When a school psychologist refers a child for counseling, the school psychologist should consider the larger picture of interdependence within the family system
School psychologist as counselor
•involves a family-focus, evidence-based intervention with manualized assessment and intervention.
Multisystem Therapy
PREPaRE acronym stand for ?
Prepare/Prevent
Reaffirm physical health/safety and security
Evaluate psychological trauma
Provide interventions
and
Respond to psychological needs
Examine effectiveness of crisis preparedness
•Ecological systems approach focuses on evaluation of behavior, cognition, and environment, including the multiple and interacting systems within which the client as student and the teacher as consultee function
•Organizational Consultation involves the school psychologist operating in a school system in which response to intervention (RTI) , multitiered systems of supports, positive behavioral supports, and empirically based interventions are implemented
•Development of a general consultation model helps practitioners conceptualize their options for consultation in different levels of intervention and the sequence of steps to be followed
Consultation Models
provides a visual detailed display of relationships among groups; such as counseling groups, school personnel and/or other affiliations
Sociogram
1.Work with families within schools
2.Provide a partnership with the community
3.Provide comprehensive mental health services
School based family interventions
•Visual, Art, and Play Techniques – examples include genograms, ecological models, and kinetic family drawings
Specific Techniques for Families to connect
Identify the three concepts related to crime prevention through environmental design:
Natural surveillance, natural access control, territoriality
Relationship building – establishing rapport, eye contact, open body language, active listening skills, reflection, paraphrasing, and higher-order skills (reflection of feelings, focusing, encouraging, summarizing. Be on time, reliable and have a positive/good humor - this foster trust
Key Professional skills in consultation(1 of 3)
Open communicaion, active listening,problem solving and differentiating wants and needs are...
Important in Consultation
Involves coherence (identifiable and predictable patterns), interdependence of components (family members), and defined boundaries; all change is introduced as members of a whole; maintaining homeostasis – a steady, stable state
Family Systems Therapy
•Gestalt-derived empty chair
•Role-playing
•Reality therapy
Additional Specific Techniques
Which of the following is NOT a recommended guideline for conducting emergency drills and exercises?
A.Educate students and parents
B.Practice during noninstructional times
C.Ensure that students think it is a real crisis event
D.Focus on the probable first
C