Family/Partnership-centered Conjoint Behavioral Consultation: The Reconceptualization of a Model

• The importance of working meaningfully and constructively with families in promoting a child’s learning and adjustment is unequivocal. Home-school partnerships have been shown to relate to many positive outcomes for children, families, teachers, and schools. • Conjoint Behavioral Consultation (CBC; Sheridan, Kratochwill, & Bergan, 1996) is a structured, indirect model of service delivery whereby parents and teachers are joined to collaboratively address needs and concerns of a child with the assistance of a consultant. Goals of CBC encompass those focused on addressing child needs, and developing home-school partnerships. • CBC is procedurally operationalized via conjoint interviews (Problem Identification, Problem Analysis, and Treatment Evaluation) aimed at prioritizing shared concerns across home and school settings, evaluating factors contributing to the identified concern, developing an agreeable plan, and evaluating the child’s progress toward goals. • Traditional approaches to CBC emphasize a problem-solving orientation, aimed largely at addressing problems experienced by individual children

Roles and Functions: School Psychology Within a Pediatric Setting

Pediatric School Psychology -&#;With an increasing number of children with chronic health conditions, the concept of pediatric care has expanded from a primarily medical emphasis to one that is more comprehensive and includes the disciplines of psychology and education (Perrin, 1999). -&#;Children with developmental disabilities experience symptoms that affect their physical, academic, behavioral, developmental, and social functioning; therefore, collaboration among interdisciplinary professionals is essential. -&#;Pediatric school psychology represents an “emergence of a subspecialty” within school psychology and includes the competencies of both school psychology and health psychology (Power, DuPaul, Shapiro, & Parrish, 1995). -&#;Pediatric school psychologists serve as a liaison among families, educational professionals, and health care providers. &#;&#;Training in pediatric school psychology has been recommended to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and communication among families, schools, and health care providers (Power, DuPaul, Shapiro, & Kazak, 2003; Shaw, 2003). -&#;With expertise in learning and development as well as consultation and intervention, school psychologists are uniquely qualified to facilitate collaborative efforts across home, school, and medical settings (Shapiro & Manz, 2004)

Conjoint Behavioral Consultation: The Effectiveness of a Partnership Orientation

Families and Schools Family-Centered Perspective Partnership-Oriented Perspective Conjoint Behavioral Consultation Methods Variables Measures Procedures Analyses Results Discussion Implications for Practice Limitations and Future Direction

Generalization of Parent and Teacher Experiences in CBC: Where Are They Now?

• Conjoint behavioral consultation (CBC) is a structured, indirect model wherein a consultant works with a parent and teacher together to promote collaborative, problem-solving partnerships across home and school settings (Sheridan, Kratochwill, & Bergan, 1996). • Goals of CBC are to address child concerns shared by parents and teachers, enhance problem-solving skills of parents and teachers, and promote future home-school partnerships. • CBC has been shown to be effective in addressing a range of behavioral, social, and academic concerns (Kratochwill, Elliott, & Busse, 1998; Sheridan, Eagle, Cowan, & Mickelson, 2001) across home and school settings, and parents and teachers report high levels of acceptability and satisfaction with CBC (Freer & Watson, 1999; Sheridan & Steck, 1995; Sheridan et al., 2004). • To date, no research has explored parents and teachers self-reported generalization of problem-solving strategies, partnership practices, and attitudes toward home-school partnerships. In addition, there is a dearth of information on barriers that inhibit partnerships

Family/Partnership-centered Conjoint Behavioral Consultation: The Reconceptualization of a Model

• The importance of working meaningfully and constructively with families in promoting a child’s learning and adjustment is unequivocal. Home-school partnerships have been shown to relate to many positive outcomes for children, families, teachers, and schools. • Conjoint Behavioral Consultation (CBC; Sheridan, Kratochwill, & Bergan, 1996) is a structured, indirect model of service delivery whereby parents and teachers are joined to collaboratively address needs and concerns of a child with the assistance of a consultant. Goals of CBC encompass those focused on addressing child needs, and developing home-school partnerships. • CBC is procedurally operationalized via conjoint interviews (Problem Identification, Problem Analysis, and Treatment Evaluation) aimed at prioritizing shared concerns across home and school settings, evaluating factors contributing to the identified concern, developing an agreeable plan, and evaluating the child’s progress toward goals. • Traditional approaches to CBC emphasize a problem-solving orientation, aimed largely at addressing problems experienced by individual children