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Consultee‐centered consultation with a teacher as a technique in behavior management
Author(s) -
Meyers Joel
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00877786
Subject(s) - feeling , psychology , health psychology , classroom management , class (philosophy) , reinforcement , behavior management , medical education , psychotherapist , social psychology , pedagogy , public health , medicine , nursing , computer science , artificial intelligence
Client-centered consultation was effective in helping a teacher to decrease one child's disruptive classroom behavior, and consultee-centered consultation helped the teacher improve her control of the class as a whole. Initially, a client-centered reinforcement program effectively decreased the disruptive behavior of one target child. Later, attention to the teacher's feelings about being the authority figure in the classroom was used in an attempt to modify the behavior of the entire class. The data describing the behavior of a second child in the classroom suggested that this consultee-centered consultation was followed by less classroom disruption. In addition, anecdotal observations indicated that consultee-centered consultation was effective in modifying the behavior of both the teacher and the rest of the class.