Mannino F V, Shore M F
Am J Community Psychol. 1975 Mar;3(1):1-21. doi: 10.1007/BF01101416.
Although consultation, as an activity for intervention, has achieved considerable popularity among human service professionals and figures prominently in current federal mental health legislation, a basic question still unanswerable is, "Does it work?" This paper reviews 35 consultation outcome studies reported between 1958 and 1972 in an attempt to provide some answers to this question. Although their quality varies greatly, the evidence seems to lend some support to the effectiveness of consultation as a change method. In 69% of the studies reviewed, positive change was demonstrated on the consultee, client, or system level or at some combination of these. The review also suggests that, despite a need for studies which build cumulatively on earlier ones so as to provide comparable data instead of a conglomerate of isolated findings, progress has been made in the evaluation of consultation.
尽管作为一种干预活动，咨询在人类服务专业人员中颇受欢迎，且在当前联邦心理健康立法中占据显著地位，但一个基本问题仍然悬而未决：“它有效吗？”本文回顾了1958年至1972年间报告的35项咨询结果研究，试图为这个问题提供一些答案。尽管这些研究的质量差异很大，但证据似乎为咨询作为一种变革方法的有效性提供了一些支持。在 reviewed的69%的研究中，在咨询对象、客户或系统层面或这些层面的某种组合上都显示出了积极的变化。该综述还表明，尽管需要进行基于早期研究的累积性研究，以提供可比数据而非一堆孤立的发现，但在咨询评估方面已经取得了进展。
