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The practice of multimodal consultation: An integrating approach for consultation service delivery
Author(s) -
Knoff Howard M.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198401)21:1<83::aid-pits2310210115>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - referral , psychology , perspective (graphical) , psychological intervention , identification (biology) , service delivery framework , service (business) , heuristic , applied psychology , medical education , management science , psychotherapist , nursing , computer science , medicine , psychiatry , artificial intelligence , engineering , botany , economy , economics , biology
Multimodal consultation provides a problem‐solving approach that recognizes and analyzes the components of multifaceted, multisubsystem referral problems. The approach, which is exemplified in the present article within the ecological perspective, consists of five parts: from the identification and analysis of maladaptive interactions that cause, support, or maintain a referral problem's environment to the evaluation of consultation interventions that target different aspects of the referral environment and are based on different consultation models. Multimodal consultation is primarily a conceptual model at this time; however, suggestions for empirical and heuristic research also are discussed.