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Consultation in Primary Prevention and Health Promotion

Consultation is a joint problem-solving process that can be applied to a variety of problem prevention and health-enhancing activities. It could guide the identification, development, implementation, and evaluation of virtually all of the prevention and promotion strategies described in this volume. Through this interactive helping process, participants share their expertise to benefit a third-party client (e.g., student, child, organization), with consultees (e.g., parent, teacher, agency director) usually being the primary agents who provide the intervention. The indirect manner in which primary prevention assistance is provided distinguishes consultation from other types of professional services.

Consultation has a long tradition and is widely practiced within most human service and health-care fields (Gallessich, 1982). There generally is agreement on the major components of the process and on the procedures for delivering...

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Acknowledgment

I would like to acknowledge the significant contributions of my colleague, Joseph E. Zins, who passed away unexpectedly in 2006. Joe and I coauthored this entry on consultation for the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion, and the present version continues to depict his vision of human services consultation.

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Erchul, W.P. (2014). Consultation in Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. In: Gullotta, T.P., Bloom, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5999-6_78

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