This study identified and assessed perceptions of eight (8) roles engaged in, and characteristic of, the competent allied health consultant. One hundred and thirty-eight respondents from across the nation completed a specially-designed questionnaire rating scale, and their responses were classified according to whether they were (1) consultants, (2) consultees, or (3) those who had served in both capacities. / The major thrust of this investigation was to determine how closely respondents approximated hypothesized role perceptions derived from a model by Lippitt and Lippitt (1986), to determine the degree to which three groups, identified above, converged on, or diverged from, one another (in the aggregate), and to determine if the rankings of the eight roles in terms of their importance were related to the groups' status, that is, whether consultant, consultee, or a combination of both. / A subsidiary consideration of this study, which proved late in the investigation to be salient, was whether respondents had some sense of the flow of the eight roles through the consultation process along a continuum from a nondirective to a directive conclusion. / Results indicated that no significant differences distinguished any one group from another and that respondents showed a midpoint approximation of the perceptions reflected in the model by Lippitt and Lippitt. Results also indicated that little, if any, sense of the temporal appearance of roles, as exhibited by the model, was evidenced. / Summaries revealed that traditional views of consultation as (1) fact finder, (2) problem solver, and (3) information specialist predominated in importance. A central conclusion was that, in spite of the general view that little, if any, consensus exists as to what constitutes a consultant, there was close agreement with the Lippitts' version of consultant roles. Thus, the model by Lippitt and Lippitt exhibits role perceptions around which allied health consultation can cohere. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-06, Section: A, page: 1838. / Major Professor: Joseph Beckham. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78263 |
| Contributors | Awkard, Julita Castro., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 89 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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