Abstract
The verbal interactions of 41 initial consultation interviews were analyzed using Bergan's (1977) Consultation Analysis Record procedures. The consultants were graduate students participating in an upper-level graduate course on school-based consultation, while the consultees were field-based educational and psychological professionals. The professional problems serving as the focus for each consultation session were both real and current. Each interview was transcribed and subsequently analyzed by trained coders. Interrater reliability was monitored throughout the coding process. Results indicated that both consultants and consultees exercised important leadership functions, doing so in both common and unique ways. Both consultant and consultee content leadership was positively related to indices of interview effectiveness, while the same was true for consultant but not consultee process leadership. Overall, the data reflect a pattern of shared leadership during consultation interactions.
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