A Qualitative Review of Pre-Service Training of Educational Psychology Consultants in the United Kingdom

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Table 1. Consultation training themes and sub-themes.

Systemic Factors	Facilitators and Barriers in Consultation	Curriculum Content and Pedagogic Methods
Broad organizational and contextual factors impacting on or influencing consultation training	Professional and training level factors that enhance/enable or block/impede effective consultation training	Training provider-specific dimensions pertaining to what is taught [teaching content] and how [teaching practice]
Traded services: addressing multiple contextual constraints where placement providers are in a traded environment, including the ethics of psychological service provision in a “market-driven” economy BPS competency-based approach: challenges and opportunities in competency-based approaches to teaching and learning in applied contexts Variables in professional practice placements: professional practice placement influences on learning Evaluation of consultation practice: utilizing the evidence base and effectiveness of consultation in achieving outcomes for clients and consultees	Consultation definitions: challenges presented by confusion and disagreement in defining consultation Frameworks: benefits of teaching consultation with transparent conceptual frameworks Theory-practice connections: roles played by psychological theory and the evidence-base when teaching consultation Supervision: the significance of supervision in learning consultation including the complexities presented by multiple supervisory relationships and models, supervision quality and the reflexivity of both consultant-in-training and supervisor	Techniques: what is taught pertaining to the “act” of consulting and across consultation models or frameworks Teaching: syllabi and pedagogical methods Development of consultation competence: developmental progression from novice to “competent,” extending skills across consulting with individuals to consulting with groups to consulting at the level of the organization, as well as advances in service user [client] involvement and in approaches to documenting consultation Assessment of trainee: role and influence of developmental multi-modal feedback [incl. self-assessment, peer assessment, etc.] as well as constraints presented by judging capability in consultation