Abstract
The present article reports a case study in which a school counselor performed behavioral consultation with a sixth-grade teacher in whose class was a student with school-refusing behavior and poor communication skills. The counselor established concrete goals for the girl with her teacher, and performed interventions, such as instructions and feedback, in order to assist the teacher. After that, the teacher's helping behavior in relation to the child's communication skills increased, and the teacher's self-evaluation improved. Following the increase in the teacher's helping behavior, the student came to show an interest in exchanges with both other children and the teacher, and furthermore, new communication, such as spontaneous behavior, also increased. After that, the girl's score on a school maladjustment scale was reduced, and her social skills increased. The school counselor's consultation enabled the teacher to grasp the child's situation objectively, and the observations in the present study enabled the teacher to evaluate her assistance to the child.
