BEHAVIORAL CONSULTATION AS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS - REPLY

Witt, Gresham, and Noell (this issue) have raised the intriguing quest ion ''What's behavioral about behavioral consultation?'' We agree with many points Witt et al. make, but disagree with some others. Although far from perfect, behavioral consultation (BC) is the most researched model of school consultation, the model that has the greatest amount of empirical support, and the one that school consultants are most lik ely to use. Rather than blame Bergan and Kratochwill (1990) for defici encies of BC related to its supposed lack of adherence to behavioral t heory and practice, we see value in recognizing the model's present st rengths and continued development. We suggest that BC is viewed most f airly as a ''work in progress.''