ABSTRACT
Consultation within the human service professions represents an indirect model of delivering educational and mental health services by which a professional with specialized expertise (i.e., consultant) and a sta# member (i.e., consultee) work together to optimize the functioning of a client in the sta# member’s setting. Consultation is regarded as an indirect helping approach because a consultant generally does not work directly with clients but rather helps clients through direct interactions with consultees. "e two fundamental goals of consultation are to enhance services to clients and to increase consultees’ capacities to deal with similar situations in the future (Gutkin & Curtis, 1999; Zins, Kratochwill, & Elliott, 1993).
