Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : consultee-centered consultation and prevention -- Contemporary consultee-centered consultation theory -- Building a consultation relationship and maintaining rapport -- Problem exploration, definition, and refraining -- Gathering additional data on the client, the client's background, and the client's community -- Sharing information, hypothesis generation, and refraining -- Analyzing systemic forces : the social context of the schools -- Generating interventions in consultation -- Supporting intervention and experimentation -- Follow-up and disengagement -- Group consultee-centered consultation -- Ethical issues in consultee-centered consultation

Drawing on historical writings about mental health consultation and on contemporary research and theory, Jonathan Sandoval lucidly explains the consultee-centered approach to consultation, providing an expert foundation on which to build a training program for future school-based consultants.