Overview of Consultation Per Erchul (2009) Gerald Caplan created a consultation model for use in counseling and mental health. Caplan’s definition of consultation included individual and groups coming together help one another for the greater good of the client. Caplan recognized the need for equality between the two experts: counselor and counselee (Erchul, 2009). Moreover, Caplan envisioned consultation to include teachers, clergy and other community professionals to better serve the community (Brown, Pryzwansky, & Schulte, 2011). Additionally, any recommendations made during a consultation is left up to the counselor to accept or decline to use the direction that is offered (Erchul, 2009). In this paper, I aim to discuss Caplan’s consultation
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All four models are still relevant fifty years later. He outlined the framework for successful client-centered case, consultee-centered case, program-centered administrative, and consultee-centered administrative consultations (Brown, Pryzwansky, & Schulte, 2011). Additionally, as a consultant must be aware of environmental and societal norms that are in play within any of the four types of consultations. Finally, the goal of a consultant is to improve the situation in all four types of Caplan’s consultation models.
References
Brown, D., Pryzwansky, W. B., & Schulte, A. C. (2011). Psychological consultation and collaboration (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.
Derald Wing, S., Nadal, K. L., Capodilupo, C. M., Lin, A. I., Torino, G. C., & Rivera, D. P. (2008). Racial microaggressions against Black Americans: Implications for counseling. Journal of Counseling & Development, 86(3), 330-338.
Erchul, W. P. (2009). Gerald Caplan: A tribute to the originator of mental health consultation. Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 19(2), 95-105. doi:10.1080/10474410902888418
Hays, D. G., & Erford, B. T. (2014). Developing Multicultural Counseling Competency: A Systems Approach. Pearson.
Seligman, L. & Reichenberg, L.W. (2014). Theories of counseling and psychotherapy: Systems, strategies, and skills. Boston, MA:
All four models are still relevant fifty years later. He outlined the framework for successful client-centered case, consultee-centered case, program-centered administrative, and consultee-centered administrative consultations (Brown, Pryzwansky, & Schulte, 2011). Additionally, as a consultant must be aware of environmental and societal norms that are in play within any of the four types of consultations. Finally, the goal of a consultant is to improve the situation in all four types of Caplan’s consultation models.
References
Brown, D., Pryzwansky, W. B., & Schulte, A. C. (2011). Psychological consultation and collaboration (7th ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.
Derald Wing, S., Nadal, K. L., Capodilupo, C. M., Lin, A. I., Torino, G. C., & Rivera, D. P. (2008). Racial microaggressions against Black Americans: Implications for counseling. Journal of Counseling & Development, 86(3), 330-338.
Erchul, W. P. (2009). Gerald Caplan: A tribute to the originator of mental health consultation. Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 19(2), 95-105. doi:10.1080/10474410902888418
Hays, D. G., & Erford, B. T. (2014). Developing Multicultural Counseling Competency: A Systems Approach. Pearson.
Seligman, L. & Reichenberg, L.W. (2014). Theories of counseling and psychotherapy: Systems, strategies, and skills. Boston, MA: