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Determinants of effectiveness in parent consultation
Author(s) -
Cobb Dan E.,
Medway Frederic J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(197807)6:3<229::aid-jcop2290060305>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - psychology , parent training , control (management) , clinical psychology , medical education , applied psychology , social psychology , medicine , family medicine , psychiatry , intervention (counseling) , computer science , artificial intelligence
This article reviews 24 studies which have sought to delineate those variables associated with positive therapeutic outcomes in parent consultation. Included among these variables are consultant, consultee, and client characteristics, and the use of different consultation models and procedures. Despite increasing interest in parent education and training, research in this area is especially fragmented and thus far has yielded few definitive conclusions. Particular methodological problems inherent in this research are failures to control for the effects of particular consultants, to sufficiently describe experimental procedures to allow for cross‐study comparisons, and to use immediate and delayed dependent measures which tap a range of parent and child behaviors.