You work in an integrated behavioral health setting and the physical therapist in this setting has asked for you to provide consultation services. Specifically, the physical therapist is struggling with many patients who are refusing to do physical therapy exercises prescribed by the physical therapist. You work with the physical therapist by teaching her motivational interviewing strategies and assist her in developing an exercise buddy system. According to Caplan’s model, what type of consultation is this?

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You work in an integrated behavioral health setting and the physical therapist in this setting has asked for you to provide consultation services. Specifically, the physical therapist is struggling with many patients who are refusing to do physical therapy exercises prescribed by the physical therapist. You work with the physical therapist by teaching her motivational interviewing strategies and assist her in developing an exercise buddy system. According to Caplan’s model, what type of consultation is this?

a. Consultee-centered consultation

b. Client-centered consultation

c. Program-centered administrative consultation

d. Behavioral consultation

a. Consultee-centered consultation

Explanation:

Caplan's model describes four different types of Mental Health Consultation: Consultee-centered case consultation, Client-centered consultation, Program-centered administrative consultation, and Consultee-centered administrative consultation.

In a Consultee-centered case consultation, the goal is to help the consultee to acquire new skills to better his work with a distinct group of clients.

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