Collaborative Consultation in the Schools: Effective Practices for Students with Learning and Behavior Problems

How does a school consultant successfully and effectively work with the greater school community, including students, teachers, administrators, professionals, and families? Collaborative Consultation in the Schools is simply the only text in the field to clearly, systematically, and definitely provide the skills for future and current practitioners alike to achieve successful collaboration. Packed with helpful exercises, case studies, and graphics, this text covers the most important and the most current issues for school consultants with in-depth research and study results.

New to this Edition:

• An emphasis on collaborative consultation within a Response-to-Intervention model allows readers to become familiar with the major educational reform initiative that has significant implications for school-based consultation, including systems-change.
• Discussion of intervention integrity (Chapter 3) teaches readers how to encourage and measure intervention integrity, an emerging critical issue in contemporary school consulting.
• Additional case studies allow the reader to examine and produce graphs, practice data-based decision making, and to test their ethical problem-solving skills at the end of each chapter.
• A list of online resources directs the reader to websites that describe quality, empirically supported interventions as well as interactive programs that promote student learning.
• A greater focus on technology in school consulting issues, such as social networking sites and phone applications, keeps students up-to-date on the latest changes in the field as they relate to the growing use of computers, mobile phones, and other innovations.
• Added material on transition planning for youth with disabilities emphasizes students about this collaborative process that requires consultation with school staff, families and the individual student.

A distinctive and clear guide for school consultants wishing to learn community collaboration with the help of learning tools, case studies, and resources.

Collaborative Consultation in the Schools is the only text to explain how to successfully collaborate with a range of professionals, students, and families in a school setting. The revised fourth edition has a new focus on problem-solving collaboration and places these activities within a larger Response-to-Intervention service delivery model. The text discusses scientifically based practices for consulting on academic and behavior problems, including methods for assessing and supporting intervention integrity. In addition, the application of current research is now illustrated in a number of case studies throughout this text. As always, this unique text continues to provide ample activities and examples for students and practitioners alike regarding practicing effective and collaborative school consultation in a variety of educational environments.