Researching Interpersonal Influence Within School Consultation

Erchul, William P.; Grissom, Priscilla F.; Getty, Kimberly C.; Bennett, Megan S.

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“…However, poor preinternship consultation preparation is speculative because of limited data regarding training (Alpert & Tarfique, 2002) and because little research has been conducted on the elements of training that prepare a student to take on the role of school-based consultant. For instance, the Handbook of Research in School Consultation (Erchul & Sheridan, 2008) does not include a chapter on consultation training or the process by which one gains consultation skills, perhaps due to the lack of research in this area. If consultation is a clinical skill that follows a developmental sequence, foundational knowledge and supervised consultation experiences should be an extremely important component of training (Newman & Sutton Burkhouse, 2008; Rosenfield et al, 2010).…”

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“…The APA (2002) Principles and a growing body of consultation training literature (see, e.g., Ingraham, 2008; Ingraham & Meyers, 2000; Miezitis, 2003) stress the importance of understanding how participants' cultures may influence consultation. Within the consultation relationship, power inequities have been a subject of interest (Erchul, Grissom, & Getty, 2008). School-based consultation as an act of advocacy (Clare, 2009) and school consultants as agents of social justice (Shriberg & Fenning, 2009) are emerging dialogue areas (Speight & Vera, 2009).…”

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Training professional psychologists in school-based consultation: What the syllabi suggest.

Hazel¹,

Laviolette²,

Lineman³

2010

Training and Education in Professional Psychology

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This article reports the findings from consultation syllabi from 25 American Psychological Associationapproved school psychology programs (40% response rate). Most responding programs offered 1 consultation course and many programs' syllabi stated expecting students to conduct 1 consultation case. The analysis showed most syllabi listed training in multiple models of consultation, with almost all mentioning the problem-solving model. Almost all syllabi listed training in treatment, but fewer than half suggested that students would learn about the use of consultation to promote prevention. Most programs' syllabi mentioned considering others' culture in consultation, whereas fewer than half mentioned considering the impact of the consultant's culture in consultation relationships and even fewer mentioned social justice. The discussion addresses the need for a better understanding of school-based consultation preservice training, consultation training in a diverse and inequitable world, and how practitioners' cognitive appraisals of consultation services could inform school-based consultation training. Considerations for consultation syllabi design are given.

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Training professional psychologists in school-based consultation: What the syllabi suggest.

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Lineman³

2010

Training and Education in Professional Psychology

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“…The research base for school consultation is modest yet growing (Erchul & Sheridan, 2014), including research focused on interpersonal communication (Erchul, Grissom, Getty, & Bennett, 2014). Scholars have recently advocated for the importance of proliferating research examining the mechanisms through which consultation functions, including interpersonal dynamics (Erchul et al, 2014; Newman, McKenney, et al, 2017). However, barriers to examining the consultation process are described in the literature, including challenges with audio or video recording consultation sessions in authentic school settings, a large number of studies’ using graduate students who may or may not be generalizable to in-service educators, the burden of transcribing communication in consultation sessions, and labor-intensive coding methods (Erchul & Schulte, 1990).…”

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“…Given these concerns, consultation researchers may be interested in examining whether it is possible to sample segments, rather than the entirety, of recordings for transcription and analysis to make inferences about the consultation process. In turn, this may facilitate the examination of a broader set of social mechanisms that impact the effectiveness of school consultation, such as social power (Erchul et al, 2014; French & Raven, 1959).…”

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Coding communication in consultation: Accurate, reliable, and efficient analysis.

Barrett¹,

Newman²,

Lords³

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School Psychology

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Given the importance of consultation in school psychology practice, more research is needed to examine the types of interpersonal communication through which consultation is effective. This study revisited Erchul and Schulte (1990), which investigated the amount of transcription and coding of consultation sessions required for reliable and accurate estimates of particular consultation communication variables. Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, this study examined tone, interrogatives, clout, affect, and use of the 1st-person plural pronoun within the instructional consultation, assessment, and teaming process. Results partially aligned with Erchul and Schulte in that tone, interrogatives, and clout could be reliably and accurately assessed by analyzing 1 complete consultation session or segments of 2 sessions. Affect and pronoun use could not be reliably and accurately measured by sampling segments of consultation sessions. Impact and ImplicationsThe study investigated the amount of transcription and coding required for reliable and accurate estimates of various dimensions of consultation communication. Some dimensions of consultation communication were reliably and accurately estimated by coding only one consultation session, yet other dimensions were not. The results can guide researchers in balancing accuracy, reliability, and efficiency in studying communication in school consultation.

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A qualitative content analysis of novice consultants' responses to a consultee's request for assistance

Newman

McIntire

Barrett

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Psychology in the Schools

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Applying qualitative content analysis methods, this study focuses on how school psychology graduate student consultants responded to a simulated request for assistance by a teacher. Seventy‐three total students participated in the study before they had engaged in their first course on school consultation. Additionally, transcripts were analyzed for subsets of students following a course on consultation (n = 23), or a course on consultation plus a supplemental communication skills focused training (n = 22). Before their consultation course, student consultants exhibited variable responses including some basic listening skills, but also offering premature problem hypotheses and solutions. They also restated child deficit focused language, often without asking for clarification, and asked questions not directly related to information provided by the consultee, which sometimes included more than one question at a time (double‐barreled). Following a typical consultation course, student consultants responded in nearly identical ways. Student consultants that completed a consultation course plus a supplemental training including deliberate practice of communication skills increased their application of basic listening skills, reduced leading questions, eliminated double‐barreled questions, and applied a pattern of paraphrasing followed by clarifying to understand concerns in more observable and measurable ways. Data are presented with qualitative examples, and implications are drawn regarding school consultation training.

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Researching Interpersonal Influence Within School Consultation

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Training professional psychologists in school-based consultation: What the syllabi suggest.

Training professional psychologists in school-based consultation: What the syllabi suggest.

Coding communication in consultation: Accurate, reliable, and efficient analysis.

A qualitative content analysis of novice consultants' responses to a consultee's request for assistance

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