Strategies for Using Technology to Develop Novice School Psychology Consultants’ Multicultural Consultation Skills

Abstract

With the growing diverse student population in U.S. public schools, an increased focus on cultural-related matters has surfaced in education. As a result, consultation training must prepare novice consultants with the knowledge and skills needed to provide multicultural consultation. Technology can be used to develop novice consultants’ multicultural consultation skills. This conceptual paper presents four strategies that can be used with technological applications to prepare novice consultants to deliver multicultural consultation services. Specific attention to how graduate-level training can infuse technology into existing educational practices, such as structured supervision, cross-university dialogs, video simulations, and virtual-based service learning to strengthen multicultural consultation skill development.