In this article, 18 studies using parent consultation to effect a change in children's schoolrelated behavior were evaluated according to guidelines set forth by the APA's Task Force on Evidence-Based Interventions in School Psychology. Results indicate that parent consultation is an effective method of intervention delivery for a variety of school-related behavioral and emotional concerns with Caucasian students. The majority of studies yielded moderate to large treatment effects. Though a variety of parent consultation models were effective, the Conjoint Behavioral Consultation (CBC) model provided the strongest evidence for producing significant school-related outcomes. Noteworthy limitations of the evidence base for parent consultation are the lack of between-group designs and use of diverse populations. It is therefore recommended that the investigation of parent consultation effectiveness be expanded to include minority populations and betweengroup designs.This review was conducted to investigate the efficacy of parent consultation as an intervention to change children's school-related behavior. In this study, 18 evidence-based studies of parent consultation with school outcomes are summarized and evaluated according to the guidelines set forth by the Task Force on Evidence-Based Interventions in School Psychology (hereafter called the Task Force; Kratochwill et al., 2001). This review is the first published application of the Task Force Procedural and Coding Manual to parent consultation literature.Consultation has a long and established history as an important method of service delivery relevant to the training and practice of school psychology. Parent consultation is often used in the broader psychology literature to refer to any communication between a professional and a parent. Within school psychology, parent consultation may be defined as a structured, indirect, collaborative, problem solving relationship between the psychologist (consultant) and one or more parent consultees (Sheridan, Kratochwill, & Bergen, 1996
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