Multi-Component Consultation

Multi-Component Consultation is a consultation package designed for elementary school teachers to improve their classroom management skills and implementation of behavioral interventions, specifically targeting teachers with lower baseline levels of knowledge, skills, and intervention-supportive beliefs. Teachers receive up to eight biweekly consultation sessions (averaging 38 minutes each) focused on general classroom management strategies (labeled praise, use of rules, effective instructions, appropriate response to rule violations) and implementation of a daily report card (DRC) intervention with one target student with or at-risk for ADHD. The intervention is delivered through face-to-face consultation sessions conducted during, before, or after school. The multi-component package includes: (1) an initial 3-hour workshop on ADHD, general classroom management, and DRC; (2) a knowledge component with fact sheets titled 'News You Can Use' provided one week prior to each session; (3) a skills component involving role plays, skills practice, observation of video models, and enhanced performance feedback with graphs of student progress and implementation procedures; and (4) a beliefs component using motivational interviewing techniques and cognitive behavioral strategies to identify and modify teacher beliefs that may serve as barriers to implementation. Facilitators are post-doctoral fellows, master's level clinicians, or graduate students in psychology who attend a 3-day training and receive ongoing supervision.