BARRIERS TO TREATMENT SUCCESS IN BEHAVIORAL CONSULTATION - CURRENT LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE-DIRECTIONS (REPRINTED FROM JOURNAL OF SCHOOL-PSYCHOLOGY, VOL 23, PG 225-239, 1985)

Behavioral consultation is a prominent indirect service model in the p ractice of psychology in the schools. Despite some empirical support f or the use of behavioral consultation strategies, consultants frequent ly face a number of barriers to implementation of treatment in practic e. This article outlines a number of these barriers in behavioral cons ultation, including the lack of standardization of consultation, lack of specific training of consultants, little or no consultee (teacher) training, problems surrounding target behavior identification, and ext ernal constraints to consultation. Each of these areas is described al ong several dimensions that need to be addressed in future research.