Behavioral Consultation and Supervision for Lasting Success
Second Edition

G. Roy Mayer, emeritus, San Diego State University
Michele Wallace, California State University, Los Angeles

2025 / ISBN: 978-1-59738-182-6 / $29.95
196 pages / paper

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This book is on behavioral consultation and supervision skills. One can consult without supervising, but effective supervision requires using consulting skills. The focus is  on what consultation and supervision are, including the differences between case supervision, staff supervision, and analysts in training supervision. The book discusses how to be an effective and ethical consultant/supervisor and how to ensure effective program implementation from contingency managers while promoting lasting behavior change that improves quality of life. It also includes interfacing with medical and mental health professionals and incorporating multiculturalism in consultation and supervision. 

Program success often depends on one’s consulting and supervision skills and knowing when to help a client receive appropriate medical and/or mental health services. No matter how excellent an intervention program has been designed, it is not likely to result in effective client behavior change if it is not implemented as specified.  Effective consultation and supervision skills are the cornerstone to achieving implementation fidelity and improved quality of life for clients, contingency mangers, and stakeholders. 

Through effective consultation and supervision, readers can help others learn to acquire new skills and behaviors that will assist them in moving toward achieving their goals and potential in working with clients, including children, students, patients, staff, and employees.