Guidebook to Community Consulting
A Collaborative Approach

A practical guide to collaborating and consulting with communities to enhance social change.

Susan M. Wolfe (Author), Ann Webb Price (Author)

9781009244336, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 March 2023

238 pages
26.2 x 18.4 x 1.9 cm, 0.63 kg

'Wolfe and Price have written the perfect book for the Community Consultation practitioner. The volume is comprehensive, clear, lively, and jam packed with all the information you will need to start or expand your practice. Most valuable and engaging are the many real-life examples highlighting the triumphs and headaches of community consultation.' Tom Wolff, Tom Wolff & Associates, USA

Guidebook to Community Consulting provides advice for people interested in starting or growing a career in community consulting. Drawing on the authors' years of experience as community consultants, it offers a wealth of practical guidance to anyone considering or establishing a successful career serving and empowering communities. It includes guidance about the personal qualities, values, and technical skills needed; how to start a consulting practice; how to collaborate with colleagues, and most importantly, how to collaborate with communities. Practical advice and tips are motivated by core guiding principles and goals including an understanding of consulting as a partnership between consultants and communities; decoloniality; anti-racism, and equity. The text is animated with illustrative anecdotes and lessons gained from real-world experience.

1. Introduction
2. Community consulting – how to prepare and where you might work
3. Do you have the personal qualities to be a community consultant
4. Community consulting values and knowledge
5. Skills you might need or want
6. Setting up your practice and managing the practical matters
7. Collaboration with colleagues
8. Collaboration with clients and the community
9. Money matters
10. The future of community consulting
Appendix 1: Community consulting professional development planning tool
Appendix 2: Resources
Glossary.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Psychiatry [MMH], Mental health services [MBPK], Health psychology [MBNH9], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Social services & welfare, criminology [JK]