CPS Collaboration & Communication 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In Bergan's behavioral consultation model, which is the correct sequence of stages?
- Problem analysis → problem identification → plan implementation → plan evaluation
- Problem identification → problem analysis → plan implementation → plan evaluation (Correct answer)
- Plan implementation → problem identification → plan evaluation → problem analysis
- Plan evaluation → problem identification → problem analysis → plan implementation
Correct answer: Problem identification → problem analysis → plan implementation → plan evaluation
Bergan's model begins with defining the problem behaviorally, then analyzing its function, implementing an intervention, and finally evaluating outcomes.
Question 2: In Caplan's mental health consultation model, 'theme interference' refers to:
- A communication breakdown caused by language differences between consultant and consultee
- The consultee's unresolved personal concerns that negatively affect their ability to help a client (Correct answer)
- Cultural values that impede the consultant's understanding of the consultee's context
- Role boundary violations between the consultant and the consultee
Correct answer: The consultee's unresolved personal concerns that negatively affect their ability to help a client
Theme interference occurs when a consultee's personal conflicts distort their professional judgment about a client, requiring indirect consultant intervention.
Question 3: A CPS works with a teacher focused on developing new instructional strategies for a struggling reader rather than directly assessing the student. This exemplifies:
- Client-centered case consultation
- Consultee-centered case consultation (Correct answer)
- Program-centered administrative consultation
- Direct assessment services
Correct answer: Consultee-centered case consultation
When the goal is building the consultee's professional skills rather than directly assessing the student, it is consultee-centered case consultation.
Question 4: The 'coordinate' role in collaborative consultation is best characterized by:
- The specialist directing all aspects of the intervention plan
- All team members sharing equal responsibility and contributing complementary expertise (Correct answer)
- The consultee implementing strategies prescribed entirely by the consultant
- The administrator supervising the specialist's recommendations
Correct answer: All team members sharing equal responsibility and contributing complementary expertise
In coordinate collaboration, professionals share equal standing and jointly develop plans, unlike hierarchical consultation where one expert directs.
Question 5: When a CPS collaborates with a speech-language pathologist on a student with complex communication needs, the MOST critical element for success is:
- Maintaining strictly separate roles with no overlap in responsibilities
- Designating one professional as the primary decision-maker
- Establishing shared student-centered goals with mutual respect for each discipline's expertise (Correct answer)
- Deferring to the professional who has more years of experience
Correct answer: Establishing shared student-centered goals with mutual respect for each discipline's expertise
Effective interdisciplinary collaboration requires shared goals and mutual professional respect to prevent fragmented services.
Question 6: The ecological systems approach to collaboration, as applied by CPS professionals, emphasizes:
- Focusing exclusively on within-child neurological and psychological factors
- Addressing the student's needs across multiple interconnected systems and contexts (Correct answer)
- Prioritizing community resources over school-based interventions
- Limiting collaboration to personnel within the school building
Correct answer: Addressing the student's needs across multiple interconnected systems and contexts
Bronfenbrenner's ecological framework recognizes that children's outcomes are shaped by interactions across family, school, peer, and community systems.
Question 7: A principal asks the CPS to help design a grade-wide behavioral screening initiative. This represents which type of consultation?
- Client-centered case consultation
- Consultee-centered case consultation
- Program-centered administrative consultation (Correct answer)
- Consultee-centered administrative consultation
Correct answer: Program-centered administrative consultation
When the consultation focuses on evaluating or developing a program or systemic initiative rather than an individual client or consultee skill, it is program-centered administrative consultation.
CPS Collaboration & Communication 3
In Bergan's behavioral consultation model, which is the correct sequence of stages?