Building Competence in School Consultation

"In all my years developing, researching, and supporting the implementation of consultation, I have never read a book more accessible, comprehensive, and motivating than the second edition of Building Competence in School Consultation: A Developmental Approach. Danny Newman and Sylvia Rosenfield have captured and communicated with crystallized clarity the elements of consultation practice. Through the use of expert narrative, provocative thought questions, video commentaries, and meaningful activities, they have taken a complex intervention and made it manageable and achievable. This book will allow consultants in training to develop the competence and confidence needed to provide highly refined consultation services throughout their careers. Importantly, this book creates the opportunity for consultants in training and in practice to enhance the lives of young people and educators and to improve the schools in which they work."

—Susan M. Sheridan, Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activity and George Holmes Professor of School Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

"Newman and Rosenfield offer consultants in training, educators, and experienced applied psychologists a cutting-edge, evidence-informed book to develop effective consultation practice. Building Competence in School Consultation: A Developmental Approach expertly balances academic rigour and accessibility, and this second edition updates the text with enhanced coverage of significant contemporary issues. The authors have woven together key conceptual ideas, research, practice, and innovative learning activities to stimulate learning and progression. A highly engaging and thought-provoking text with a wealth of inclusive resources that recognise and celebrate the diversity of learning approaches, this book is the best it its field."

—Dr. Emma-Kate Ní Chinnéide, Programme Director and Principal Educational Psychologist at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, UK

"In all my years developing, researching, and supporting the implementation of consultation, I have never read a book more accessible, comprehensive, and motivating than the second edition of Building Competence in School Consultation: A Developmental Approach. Danny Newman and Sylvia Rosenfield have captured and communicated with crystallized clarity the elements of consultation practice. Through the use of expert narrative, provocative thought questions, video commentaries, and meaningful activities, they have taken a complex intervention and made it manageable and achievable. This book will allow consultants in training to develop the competence and confidence needed to provide highly refined consultation services throughout their careers. Importantly, this book creates the opportunity for consultants in training and in practice to enhance the lives of young people and educators and to improve the schools in which they work."

—Susan M. Sheridan, Associate Dean for Research and Creative Activity and George Holmes Professor of School Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

"Newman and Rosenfield offer consultants in training, educators, and experienced applied psychologists a cutting-edge, evidence-informed book to develop effective consultation practice. Building Competence in School Consultation: A Developmental Approach expertly balances academic rigour and accessibility, and this second edition updates the text with enhanced coverage of significant contemporary issues. The authors have woven together key conceptual ideas, research, practice, and innovative learning activities to stimulate learning and progression. A highly engaging and thought-provoking text with a wealth of inclusive resources that recognise and celebrate the diversity of learning approaches, this book is the best in its field."

—Dr. Emma-Kate Ní Chinnéide, Programme Director and Principal Educational Psychologist at The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, UK