ABSTRACT
Consultants in educational settings make unique contributions to systems and to supporting educators and caregivers. Combined with a scarcity of direct service providers across the globe, there is a special role for educational and psychological consultants in the promotion of children's well-being in all aspects of their development. Increasing diversity of student populations across the world has brought to the foreground the need to emphasize and promote multicultural competence in the training, theory, and practice of school psychologists. New directions in school-based multicultural competence focus on transnational and transcultural differences as professional psychologists attempt to provide services in a global community. The consultation subgroup within the Globalization of School Psychology project on (a) identifying subthemes representing major areas of practice and science under consultation, (b) summarizing readings addressing consultation practice and research, and (c) highlighting multicultural and transnational themes in the summaries for each of the readings. This chapter also presents an overview of this book.
