Developing Multiprofessional Teamwork for Integrated Children's Services

by Anning, Angela; Cottrell, David; Frost, Nick; Green, Josephine; Robinson, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780335219797
• ISBN10: 0335219799
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

Multi-professional practice in the delivery of services is a central government imperative in the UK. Yet there is little research and few publications in the field to support those charged with implementing the policy.The book's main purpose is to offer a primary resource to professionals charged with conceptualising, planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional practice in children's services.The book includes theoretical frameworks underpinning the policy and practice of integrated services and research evidence of some current multi-professional teams dilemmas in the real world of work. Dilemmas include organising and managing multi-professional teams, supporting professionals as they learn to adapt to new roles and responsibilities, and learning how to share professional knowledge and expertise. These dilemmas operate for at the dual levels of individual professionals in times of changes in their working lives and of the teams as entities as they learn to work together in new ways. Sometimes the individual and team dilemmas are in conflict. Managers were effective when they were able to help their teams to confront and work through conflict, valuing and respecting their diversity in beliefs, values and specialist knowledge, whilst promoting a community of learners who shared overall aims and objectives for their services.The book offers readers evidence based insights into the practice of joined up working, a resource for reflection on practice and recommendations for making multi-professional practice effective.

Author Biography

Angela Anning is a research professor at the University of Leeds and a principal investigator at Birkbeck College, London, for the national evaluation of the anti-poverty initiative Sure Start.

Table of Contents

Researching and understanding multi-professional teams working with children
Working in a multi-professional world	p. 3
Researching multi-professional teams	p. 13
Organizing and managing multi-professional teams	p. 27
Working and learning in a multi-professional team
Multi-professional perspectives on childhood	p. 51
Changing roles and responsibilities in multi-professional teams	p. 60
Sharing knowledge in the multi-professional workplace	p. 76
Planning, implementing and supporting multi-professional teams working with children
Making it work 1 - addressing key dilemmas	p. 89
Making it work 2 - strategies for decision-making and service delivery	p. 102
Taking multi-professional practice forward	p. 110
Multi-agency team check list	p. 128
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