ABSTRACT
A psychological consultant attempts to influence professional caregivers, who have responsibility to their clients to adopt more effective strategies in their dealings with clients. Consultation is a collaborative problem-solving relationship in which a nonpsychological professional (consultee) voluntarily approaches the psychologist (consultant) for assistance with a work-related problem. Rather than referring the child to the psychologist, consultation is a request for assistance in carrying out the consultee’s responsibility to the client. Thus, the consultee continues to be responsible for the problem and is free to accept or to reject the consultant’s help (Brown, Pryzwansky, & Schulte, 1987; Caplan, 1970; Conoley & Conoley, 1982).
