This project provides brief, 3-session teleconsultation for parents/caregivers of children with social, emotional, and/or behavioral concerns as they navigate implementing structure, routines, and home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project is being implemented as community outreach to support the needs of families as they work to support their children during the COVID-19 pandemic. We also invite but don't require families to participate in research on this process as we seek to understand the feasibility, acceptability, and potential benefits of this approach for children and families to inform future research and practice. There have been recent advancements in the use of teleconsultation to increase the capacity of school psychologists serving teachers (e.g., Bice-Urbach & Kratochwill, 2016) and we feel there is great potential for this tool to be used similarly by school psychologists to support families. Thus, families who wish to participate in teleconsultation will also be invited to participate in the research portion of the project (though research participation will not be required to receive consultation services). This is an open trial that will continue throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Consultation is available for families throughout Michigan and in other states who are interested in participating. We will use a single-group, pre-post design to address our research aims.

Aim 1:

Determine key content and process variables of brief teleconsultation when delivered by master's- and doctoral-level school psychologists via video conference as measured by the Consultation Analysis Record (CAR; Bergan & Kratochwill, 1990).

Aim 2:

Determine whether brief teleconsultation is acceptable to parents who receive the service, as measured by the Behavior Intervention Rating Scale (BIRS; Elliot & Von Brock Treuting, 1991) and Teleconsultation Acceptability and Feasibility Form (Machalicek, 2008).

Aim 3:

Determine if brief teleconsultation results in measurable gains in child goals developed during consultation as measured using parent-completed Direct Behavior Ratings (DBR; Chafouleas et al., 2010) .

Aim 4:

Determine if brief teleconsultation results in changes in parental well-being (sense of parenting competence and stress) following participation using the Parenting Sense of Competence (Johnston & Mash, 1989) and Parental Stress Scale (Berry & Jones, 1995).


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Project Contact:

  • Kristin Rispoli
  • Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education
  • College of Education



Partners

  • Michigan Alliance for Families
  • Monroe County Intermediate School District
  • Michigan Alliance for Families




Report of calendar year 2020 activity.