Full Description
In this new text, traditional models of consulting are presented, critically examined, and reworked to incorporate issues of race and gender into their respective theoretical principles. This text presents a perspective that is relevant to contemporary professional consultants. It engages readers on deep, personal, and professional levels while filling critical holes in the preparation of mental health professionals to conduct professional consultation. For example, the book discusses in detail the psychological contract, the most critical element determining the success of consultants' work. Another unique aspect of this text is the attention given to the fundamental contexts of consultation and intervening. In staying true to the emphasis in the helping professions on relationships, this text places strong emphasis on identifying and analyzing the numerous and complex relationships that emerge in consultation theory and real-world consultation practice.
Contents
Each chapter concludes with "Summary" and "Questions." Preface. Contextual Dimensions. 1. Introduction and Overview of the Book. Contextual Background of the Book. The Voice. Overview of Remaining Chapters. 2. Counseling and Consultation. Definitions of Consultation. Formal and Informal Consultation. Professional Consultation. Conceptual Implications. Comparing Counseling and Consultation. Structural Differences. Settings and Clientele. Goals and Processes. Stages. Financial Arrangements. Obligations and Responsibilities. Helper Characteristics. Generic Approaches and Models. Research in Consultation. 3. The Context of Consultation. Organizational Context. Organizations and the Individual. Career Theory and Diversity. Consultees Context: Organizational Culture. Organizational culture. Organizational Life Cycle. Levels of Culture. Culture and Consultation. The Culture of Context. 4. The Context of Intervening and Change. Theories of Systems and Change. Conceptualizing Change in Schools, Agencies, and Institutions. Incremental and Transformative Change. Levels of Intervening. Problem-Oriented and Solution-Oriented Intervening. Inclusion and Exclusion in Intervening. The Culture of Intervening. Roles of Consultants. Micro-Level and Messo-Level Intervening. First and Second Order Change. 5. Formal and Psychological Contracts. Formal Contracts. Informed Consent in Consultation. Objectives of Formal Contracts. Components of Formal Contracts. Psychological Contracts. Social Psychological Contracts. Changing Social Psychological Contracts. Diversity and the Changing Psychological Contract. The Two Psychological Contracts in Consultation. Contextual Dimensions of Psychological Contracts. Structural Dimensions. Components of Psychological Contracts. 6. Gender, Disabilities, Racioethnicity, and the Psychological Contract. Gender and Disability Issues in Consultation. Barriers in the Workplace. Potential Gender Bias. Women and the Psychological Contract. Feminism and Technology. Persons with Disabilities. Gender and Disability and the Psychological Contract. Racioethnic Issues. Typology of Racioethnic Minorities. Modern Racial and Gender Oppression. Folk Theory About Getting Ahead. Theory of Self Sabotage in Black America. Diversity and the Psychological Contract. Assessing Consultees. Race Relations and the Psychological Contract. Psychological Contracts in Consultees and Their Clients. 7. Ethical Dimensions. Professional Consultation and Professional Consulting. The Regulation of Professional Consultation. Ethics and Consultation. Ethical Codes and Diversity. Levels of Ethical Functioning. Application of Multiple Codes. Legal Considerations. School Counseling or Consulting. Tort Law and Consultation. Consultant Vision and Values. 8. Ethical Decision-Making in Consultation. Core Competencies for Ethical Consulting. Grounding Ethical Decision-Making. Corruptions in Ethical Decision-Making. Summary of Ethical Decision-Making Models. Shillito-Clarks Model. Kitcheners Model. 9. Mental Health Consultation. Traditional Models of Consultation. Generic Theoretical Structure. Flexibility of Traditional Model Structures. Caplan and Caplan's Mental Health Consultation. Characteristics of Mental Health Consultation. Theme Interference and Reduction. Critical Issues in Mental Health Consultation. Emerging Constructs in Mental Health Consultation. 10. Behavioral Person-in-Environment Approaches. Person-in-Environment Perspective. Characteristics of Behavioral Consultation Approaches. Bergan and Kratochwill's Behavioral Consultation. Behavioral Case Consultation. Consultant-Consultee Verbal Processes. Controversy in Behavioral Consultation. Behavioral Consultation and Diversity. Learning Theory and Behavioral Social Work. Behavioral Social Work and Diversity. Myrick's Systematic Behavioral Consultation Model. Ingredients of Effective Consultation. Facilitative Communication and Responding. Seven Steps of Consulting. Vacc and Loesch's Model. 11. Process Consultation in Organizations, Institutions, and Agencies. Definition of Process Consultation. Early Assumptions. Stages and Processes. Task and Roles of Traditional OD Consultants. Strategic Goals. Minimal Skills Needed. Skills in Active Inquiry. Ten Principles of Process Consultation. 12. School-Based Consultation and Collaboration. Conceptualizing Collaboration. School-Based Consulting. Generic Stages. Conceptualizing Collaboration. Definition of Collaboration. The Context of Collaboration. Models of Collaboration. Responsibility in Collaboration. Relationships in Collaboration. Sanctioned Roles in Collaboration. Goals and Interventions. Collaboration in Schools. Collaborative/Interdependent School-Based Model. Conjoint Behavioral Consultation. Goals of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation. Stages of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation. Generic Obstacles in School Collaboration. 13. Agency-Based Consultation and Collaborative Cultures. Agency-Based Consultation. Potential Challenges. Program Consultation and Evaluation. Definitions of Program Consultation. Goals and Processes. Collaborative Cultures. 14. Structuring Workshops/Seminars in Consultation. Conceptualizing Workshop/Seminars as Consultation. Primary and Secondary-Level Clients. Workshop/Seminars as "Purchase Models." Pre-Formulated and Formulated Workshops. Theoretical Grounding of Workshop/Seminars. Learning Theories. Triadic Theory of Change. Developing Psychological Contracts. Workshop Goals and Goal Setting. Consultant Expertise. Diversity in Workshops and Seminars. Pragmatic Structural Concerns.
