School Psychologist Praxis 2 - Mental-Health Consultation

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Mental-Health Consultation (overview)

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-Maladaptive behavior and psychological disturbance arise because caregivers, family, friends, and community groups within a social system to do not provide sufficient direction, support and stability when an individual is faced with a stressful life event. He believed that mental health consultation is a service to many different professionals to assist them in dealing with the psychological aspects of a current work problem, and, to deal more effectively with similar problems in the future.

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Mental-Health Consultation (process)

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1) Build a relationship
2) Establishing relationships with consultees
3) Assessment
4) Interventions
5) Follow-Up and Evaluation

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Mental-Health Consultation (assumptions)

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-Both intrapsychic (consultee’s feelings, attitudes, and beliefs) and environmental factors are important in explaining and changing behavior.

-Consultees are responsible for action because in
Caplan’s view, the direct involvement of consultants in problem resolution diminishes the feelings of ownership over problems and solutions.

-Consultee attitudes and feelings are important, but cannot be dealt with directly (need to use a displacement object)

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Mental-Health Consultation (Client-centered case consultation)

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The consultant functions as a specialist who assesses the client, makes a diagnosis, and makes recommendations as to how the consultee (often a teacher) might modify his or her dealings with the client (often a student).

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Mental-Health Consultation (Consultee-centered case consultation)

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-This type of consultation is most closely identified with Caplan.
-Primary goal is to remediate the shortcomings in the consultee’s professional functioning that are responsible for difficulties, with client improvement a secondary goal.

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Consultee-centered case consultation (lack of knowledge)

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Consultee-centered case consultation (lack of skill)

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lack

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Consultee-centered case consultation (lack of confidence)

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lack

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Consultee-centered case consultation (lack of objectivity)

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Theme interference = an unsolved problem or defeat that the consultee has experienced, which makes the person believe they will always experience the negative (B) when they try A or have a specific situation. This is what he believes is most effectively dealt with in consultation.

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Consultee-centered case consultation (principle methods)

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1) Verbal focus on the client
2) The parable (use an example)
3) Nonverbal focus on the case
4) Nonverbal focus on the consultation relationship

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Mental-Health Consultation (Program-centered administrative consultation)

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-This is similar to client-centered case consultation because the consultant is viewed as a specialist who is called in to study a problem and provide a set of recommendations for dealing with a problem.
-Difference = The consultant is concerned with problems surrounding the development of a new program or some aspect of organizational functioning.

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Mental-Health Consultation (Consultee-centered administrative consultation)

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The goal of consultee-centered administrative consultation is to improve the professional functioning of members of an administrative staff. The consultatnt agrees to work with the organization on a long-term basis.

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Multicultural/Cross-Cultural Consultation

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Direct-Behavioral Consultation

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Instructional Consultation Model

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Problem-Solving Consultation

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