The Impact of Consultant Race and Student Race on Perceptions of Consultant Effectiveness and Intervention Acceptability

Multicultural Consultee-Centered Consultation: When Novice Consultants Explore Cultural Hypotheses With Experienced Teacher Consultees

“…Analog studies focus on racial factors in consultant-consultee interactions within school psychology (Duncan & Pryzwansky, 1993;Naumann, Gutkin, & Sandoval, 1996;Rogers, 1998), but these are not specific to a CCC approach. Much like the emergent transformation from postpositivistic and quantitative to constructionist and qualitative methods and paradigms occurring within counseling psychology (e.g., Ponterotto, 2002;Pope-Davis et al, 2002), consultation researchers are increasingly looking to qualitative methods to study some of the complexities of culture and consultation.…”

The influence of race and consultant verbal behavior on perceptions of consultant competence and multicultural sensitivity.

“…It is also quite likely that consultants will work with consultees regarding students from a broad range of minority groups. Given that little is currently known about how the race of the student affects the consultation experience when the student is the focus of the presenting concern (see Naumann et al, 1996, for an exception), future research in this area is warranted. A meta-analysis by Dusak and Joseph (1983) examining the bases of teacher expectancies reveals that student race is one of the key variables that impacts teachers expectations about students' academic potential.…”

“…In one of the few consultation studies that examined the effects of consultant and client race, Naumann, Gutkin, and Sandoval (1996) found that the race of the consultant did not impact ratings of intervention acceptability or consultant credibility. However, like Pomales et al (1986) and Thompson and Jenal (1994), Naumann et al (1996) did not fully cross all racial pairs in their exploratory investigation. Therefore, it is still unclear how racial dissimilarity/similarity and multicultural interpersonal skill influence perceptions of counselors’ or consultants’ competence.…”

“…It is also difficult to understand the relative influence and importance of racial match and counselor multicultural interpersonal skills from these studies. In one of the few consultation studies that examined the effects of consultant and client race, Naumann, Gutkin, and Sandoval (1996) found that the race of the consultant did not impact ratings of intervention acceptability or consultant credibility. However, like Pomales et al (1986) and Thompson and Jenal (1994), Naumann et al (1996) did not fully cross all racial pairs in their exploratory investigation.…”

The Effect of Race and Expertise on Source Credibility Ratings While Considering Resumes

“…When assessing student's perceptions of the influence of race on professor credibility, Hendrix (1998) found that ''most students who were interviewed did not personally believe that any professor had an automatic advantage in establishing credibility based on race'' (p. 753). When investigating the impact of consultant race and a child's race on consultant credibility and the acceptability of interventions by teachers in training, Naumann, Gutkin, and Sandoval (1996) found that ''consultant race and child race had no impact on perceptions of consultant credibility and intervention acceptability'' (p. 157). Clearly, not all scholars are convinced that race plays a role in the development of credibility.…”