Books about Consultation from Amazon.com

Best selling author and national expert and trainer, Barbara Jennings has written an excellent guide on how to earn up to $100,000 or more from a home staging business. Director of Decorate-Redecorate.Com, she takes readers step by step through the maze of starting and growing a lucrative staging business, covering virtually everything one needs to know and do. With 37 years in staging, redesign, decorating and home business development, her large format, in-depth manual teaches the essential tactics and strategies so anyone can succeed who puts forth the effort. Holding nothing back, readers are privy to the inner secrets, can harness all of the author's insights, and avoid the pitfalls.

The manual is loaded with numerous check lists, a wide variety of forms, over 140 pictures, specific how-to details and so much more. A free online discussion forum is also available to anyone interested, as well as free newsletters on a wide variety of decorating topics. Readers just need to visit her website to enroll.

For anyone who loves decorating and working with people, staging is a fast growing industry with great profit potential no matter what the economic climate or where one lives. How often does one get to be paid while having fun? Home staging combines decorating techniques with real estate strategies so stagers can effectively help owners sell their homes in record time for record profits, a vital service needed today more than ever. Written in a personable and conversational style, Home Staging for Profit is a must read for anyone serious (or just exploring). Photos help capture the essence of staging while giving readers a clear idea of what to expect. No degree or prior experience is needed. The manual exemplifies solid business training plus decorating and staging specifics, including:

• numerous candid before and after pictures of actual, recent projects
• the top mistakes and common problems sellers make
• what stagers must do and understand
• how to identify a home's assets and faults
• how to interview and bond with real estate agents
• how to interview and bond with home owners
• the five ingredients for a successful staging service
• professional image, attitudes and ethics needed
• how to do consultations, submit bids, make presentations
• how to set up the business, licenses to get and so forth
• how to get clients and referrals from multiple sources
• how to profit from consultations and offer full staging services
• how to promote, maintain and sustain the business indefinitely
• how to price services with confidence and ease
• how to protect, organize and prioritize.

Jennings has written several books including Rearrange It, which teaches how to start and grow an interior re-design business. She has also written Staging Luxurious Homes and Staging Portfolio Secrets, and Advanced Redesign.

Readers will also receive:

• 47 staging tricks for instant home appeal
• 107 questions to ask agents and homeowners to help quote services
• detailed pricing guidelines for furnished and empty houses
• legal issues readers should know about
• extensive list of stager tools needed for actual projects
• extensive cleaning and painting guidelines
• a 29-page detailed checklist to make consultations easy
• list of over 300 possible business names
• detailed information on available visual aids, promotional tools, management tools, and dual certification courses, which were pre-developed to supplement reader's knowledge, increase confidence and hone design skills are also included (last chapter)

Bonus Section includes:

• 15 handy reproducible forms ready to go
• multiple checklists and handout examples for value added services

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Price: $29.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The latest edition to the Ed Schein's well-loved set of process consultation books, this new volume builds on the content of the two that precede it and explores the critical area of the helping relationship. Process Consultation Revisited focuses on the interaction between consultant and client, explaining how to achieve the healthy helping relationship so essential to effective consultation. Whether the advisor is an OD consultant, therapist, social worker, manager, parent or friend, the dynamics between advisor and advisee can be difficult to understand and manage. Drawing on over 40 years of experience as a consultant, Schein creates a general theory and methodology of helping that will enable a diverse group of readers to navigate the helping process successfully. .
Price: $46.40 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The third of edition of Collaborative Consultation in the Schools: Effective Practices for Students with Learning and Behavior Problemspresents the consultation as a collaborative, problem-solving endeavor. This comprehensive, yet reader-friendly book is designed to assist teachers and practitioners in working with students who have, or are at risk for, school adjustment or learning problems. This comprehensive book offers: * In-depth case studies about a student with behavior problems, a student with learning problems, and a collaborative vignette showing the systems-change process. * Multiple interventions and strategies are woven throughout the book to emphasize the effective practices used in today's schools. * Numerous forms, charts, and activities are provided as suggestions and problem-solving information. For general education techers, special education teachers, educational administrators, and school counselors.

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Price: $70.08 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The most comprehensive consultation book on the market, Psychological Consultation outlines the major theoretical approaches to consultation and offers concrete ideas about the consultation process and techniques of consultation. Two chapters are devoted to specific consultees: parents and teachers. Additional chapters deal with consultation in organizations, the consultee, the consultant, and the use of data and information to inform the consultation process. For counselors and psychologists..
Price: $74.59 [Notify me when price goes down.]

With Dougherty's PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSULTATION AND COLLABORATION IN SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS, 5e, you will see how human service professionals help others work more effectively to fulfill their work-related or caretaking responsibilities to individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This practical text uses a proven generic model for application, surveys various approaches to consultation, examines the organizational context of consultation, and reviews the numerous ethical and professional challenges that today's consultants face. By following this book's structure, you can develop or refine your own personal model of consultation. Numerous new and proven case studies bring concepts to life. A new focus on prevention, more information on school-based consulting and working with non-mainstream families, and some of the latest qualitative data gathering techniques and evaluation methods more thoroughly prepare you for professional success..
Price: $91.70 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Consultation interventions are an increasingly popular alternative to clinical practice, allowing the practitioner to interact with and affect many different individuals and organizations. This type of work challenges mental health professionals, drawing on all the skills and resources they may possess, yet also offers some of the greatest rewards and opportunities for service.

Filled with numerous case examples and checklists, Consultation Skills for Mental Health Professionals contains a wealth of information on this important area of practice. It provides a comprehensive source for working with a diverse clientele in a variety of settings, discussing both traditional mental health consultation models and the fast-growing field of organizational consulting.

The guide is divided into four parts:

• Individual-Level Consulting Issues takes up individual career assessment and counseling, along with how organizational contexts affect individual jobs; leadership, management, and supervision; executive assessment, selection, interviewing, and development; and executive coaching.
• Consulting to Small Systems discusses working with teams and groups; planning and conducting training and teambuilding; diversity in the workplace and in consultation.
• Consulting to Large Systems covers how to work with large organizations, including organizational structure, terms, culture, and concepts, as well as processes such as change and resistance; how to assess organizations, and the characteristics of healthy and dysfunctional workplaces; and issues involved in organizational intervention.
• Special Consulting Topics include issues such as the practical aspects of running a consulting practice; the skills required for successful clinical consultation; consultation services for special populations; and crisis consultation, including critical incident stress management, psychological first aid, disaster recovery, media communication, and school crisis response.

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Price: $61.52 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Be on call with confidence! Successfully managing on-call situations requires a masterful combination of speed, skill, and knowledge The pocket-sized titles in the On Call series provide you with immediate access to the vital, step-by-step information you need to rise to the occasion! When you're on call...alone...in the middle of the night...they're your answer books for what to do and how to do it quicklyfrom diagnosing a difficult or life-threatening situation to prescribing the right medication.

• Provides easy-to-reference, specialty-specific guidance on how to manage problems that arise while on call without direct supervision.
  
• Catalogs the calls you are most likely to receive and provides you with the questions you should ask to assess the urgency of each situation.
  
• Details the ideal approach to diagnose and manage patients, communicate with colleagues and families, and avoid common mistakes for every call.
  
• Reviews the temporary orders appropriate for each call, as well as the general protocol, and the major threats to life you must consider before arriving at bedside.
  
• Indexes problems by disease as well as by symptoms to expedite your access to the answers you need.
  
• Includes a comprehensive collection of differential diagnoses and a detailed formulary of commonly used medicationsa quick, alphabetically arranged reference for indications, drug dosages, routes of administration, side effects, contraindications, and modes of action.

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Price: $31.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]