Working in Multi-professional Contexts

Making links between different professional roles, policies and practices, this book equips readers swith the skills, knowledge and understanding that managers, practitioners and students require to work in integrated multiprofessional settings. It draws on case studies to consider the dilemmas, challenges and complexities common within workplaces.

Chapters cover:

• roles, policies and practices in integrated services

• quality assessment in a multiprofessional context

• evaluating and developing children and family services

• participation and engagement in integrated family centres

• contemporary leadership and management in multiprofessional teams

• innovative multiprofessional learning

• creative multiprofessional environments.

Each chapter incorporates activities to support professional development. Six chapters analyse: multi-professional case studies on inclusive education; joint assessment and family support; leadership in integrated children's services (education, health and social services); participatory one-stop family centre design; and mentoring in the childcare/early years sector.

Contenu
Introduction: Themes, Issues and Conclusions
The Book, Its Concept, Why It Is Needed and Who It Is for
The Structure of the Book
Multi-Professional Assessment, Planning and Delivery
Concepts of Assessment
Structures of Assessment
Relationships of Assessment
Conclusion
Recommended Further Reading
Participation and Multi-professional Working
Defining Our Concepts of Participation
Structures of Participation
Participatory Relationships
Conclusion
Recommended Further Reading
Traditional Structures of Multi-Professional Leadership and Management
Concepts of Visionary Leadership and Management
Management, Leadership and Organisational Structures
Relational Multi-Professional Management and Leadership
Conclusion
Recommended Further Reading
Contemporary Approaches to Multi-Professional Leadership and Management
Reflexive Managers, Leaders and Individuals
Systemic Multi-Professional Joint Working
Multi-Professional Systems, Relationships and Change
Conclusion
Recommended Further Reading
Multi-Professional Evaluation
Total Quality Management
Research-Based Evaluation/Development
Relational Approaches to Evaluation
Conclusion
Recommended Further Reading
Multi-Professional Learning and Creativity
Concepts of Multi-Professional Learning, Innovation and Creativity?
Environments for Innovation, Creativity and Change
Conclusion
Recommended Further Reading
Final Conclusions
References
Index