School Counselor Consultation: A Pathway to Advocacy, Collaboration, and Leadership

Abstract

In this article, four vignettes are presented and deconstructed in order to demonstrate that school counselors are advocates, collaborators, and leaders when engaged as consultants. School counselor consultation appears to be a complex process based on a student advocacy disposition shared by consultees, and the process is a collaborative one resulting in recognition as leaders. Many skills are required if one is to be competent across the initiation, prescription, provision, collaboration, and mediation consultation modes.