Consultee-Centered Consultation Improving the Quality of Professional Services in Schools and Community Organisations ppt

[...]... caregiving institutions and individual caregivers in the community and to involve these in joint action that achieves the goal of reducing rates of mental disorder in the population, and which also furthers the mission of the other caregivers 2 To obtain and maintain the sanction of community leaders and institutional administrators for consultants to enter and operate in the nonmental health institution... clarifying the nature of the client's problem, understanding the forces in the environment that must be accounted for, and interpreting and applying professional perspectives and scientific theories to the development of strategies to resolve the consultee's work problem with the client Principles of Consultee-Centered Consultation The following principles epitomize the ways consultee-centered consultation. .. problem-solving repertoires of consultant and consultee professionals The underlying theme of these presentations is the focus on the process of consultee-centered consultation and its goal of promoting conceptual change in both the consultee and the consultant as they jointly develop strategies for solving the consultee's work problem CONSULTEE-CENTERED CONSULTATION All professional consultation involves... background and training were in the field of the History of Ideas and her special expertise was in textual analysis She has exerted a major influence on the development of our consultation model, particularly in her emphasis on historical and socio-cultural factors in shaping the behavior of consultees and consultants and of their institutions and also in helping us focus on cognitive aspects of interpersonal... consultee to offer relevant explanations and information about the work problems, and the consultant's questions, observations, and hypotheses about it are processed jointly to result in a set of strategies for resolution of the problem The Consultee The process of consultee-centered consultation illuminates the professional expertise of the consultee, his or her role in the case, the goals the consultee... about the client's work problem and aims to elicit this knowledge in the consultation process The consultant hopes to help the consultee improve the handling or understanding of the current work problem with the goal of assisting the consultee to manage similar problems in the future The aim is to effect changes in the consultee's performance and not his or her sense of well-being Consultee-centered consultation. .. well-being, development, intrapersonal, interpersonal and organizational effectiveness appropriate to the consultee's work setting 12 LAMBERT The goal of the consultation process is the joint development of a new way of conceptualizing the work problem so that the repertoire of the consultee is expanded and the professional relationship between the consultee and the client is restored or improved The. .. train Episcopal bishops as consultants to their fellow bishops and this led to modifications in the operations of the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church We moved along a similar path in the Peace Corps, the Job Corps, and in the armed services of the United States Our focus widened to the training of consultants whose mission was to improve interpersonal relations and efficiency in the members of. .. examine the process and the relevance or appropriateness of selected theoretical applications The Client The nature of the case, the setting in which the client resides or works, the resources of the environment, and the people in it, and the consultee's hoped for change; all offer ways to explore the underlying explanations of the problem the client presents Many theories in the behavioral science... clarify the consultee's presentation of the work problem and to understand the ways the consultee thinks about or represents the problem But as the consultation proceeds, the questions the consultant asks reflect his or her developing understanding and presentation of the problem And during the interaction, the consultant searches his or her theoretical repertoire for appropriate representations of the . Improving the Quality of Professional Services in Schools and Community Organizations Consultee-Centered Consultation Improving the Quality of Professional . alt="" Consultee-Centered Consultation Improving the Quality of Professional Services in Schools and Community Organisations The Consultation and