Prevention and Consultation (Prevention Practice Kit) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 145225799X ISBN 13: 9781452257990

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Prevention and Consultation relates prevention and consultation in the helping professions. With the coming together of the resurgences of prevention, ecological principles, multicultural and social justice issues in the literature in the helping professions, this book is timely with its focus on how consultation can promote systems and individual change with multicultural competence in ways that empower all stakeholders. The book first provides a brief overview of consultation, its characteristics, the skill sets required of consultants, the roles consultants take on, consultation models, and the research base for consultation. Once these essential underpinnings of consultation are detailed, the author provides an analysis of the relationship between prevention and consultation and a detailed example of how prevention and consultation can work together in enhancing mental health programs in schools. The point is made that although consultation had preventive concepts from its beginnings, there has been limited development of its preventive potential. The author then provides selected examples of prevention and consultation in action in a variety of circumstances within a variety of settings so that its scope and breadth are adequately described.. The text then provides two detailed, illustrative examples of bullying prevention in the workplace and in the schools. Rather than simply presenting a case study for each example, the author reviews related research in bullying prevention in both the workplace and schools and then provides a detailed case study for each. These examples will assist the reader in developing a personal model of consultation that includes a strong preventive focus. The author concludes with a discussion of both the barriers to and the enhancements for using prevention and consultation in applied settings. The reader will receive guidance for ensuring that preventive elements are examined at the initiation of each consultation relationship.The main features of this text include the following: a review of the relationship between prevention and consultation; two detailed, parallel case studies in preventive consultation, one community based and other school based; a succinct overview of consultation and its characteristics; and recommendations for increasing the use of preventive consultation.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur M. Horne is currently Dean of the College of Education and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens. He obtained his PhD in counseling and Educational Psychology from Southern Illinois university, and his masters and bachelor's from the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is widely known in the area of bullying, working with youth, boys, and prevention. Robert K. Conyne is Professor Emeritus from the University of Cincinnati, is a licensed psychologist, clinical counselor and fellow of the Association for Specialists in Group work (ASGW) and the American Psychological Association. He has 36 years of professional experience as a University professor and department head, psychologist, counselor, administrator, consultant and trainer. Current work finds him volunteering as an American Red Cross disaster mental health specialist and service as a military family life consultant. He has received many awards, including Eminent Career Award from AGSW, Lifetime achievement award in Prevention from APA, Distinguished Alumni Award of Distinction from Purdue University and is designated a Soros International Scholar. He is 2008 President of APA's division of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy. With over 200 scholarly publications and presentations, including 1 0 books in his areas of expertise (group work, prevention, and ecological counseling).

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 145225799X
• ISBN 13: 9781452257990
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80
• Editor: Dougherty A. Michael