Working in Multi-professional Contexts
A Practical Guide for Professionals in Children's Services
- John M Davis - University of Edinburgh, UK
- Mary Smith - University of Edinburgh, UK
Making links between different professional roles, policies and practices, this book equips you with the skills, knowledge and understandings that managers, practitioners and students need to work in integrated multiprofessional settings. The book draws on case studies to consider the dilemmas, challenges and complexities common within your 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 centers
• Contemporary leadership and management in multiprofessional teams
• Innovative multiprofessional learning
• Creative multiprofessional environments
Each chapter incorporates activities to support professional development. There are six case study chapters that analyze specific examples from inclusive education, integrated family support, integrated children's services (education, health and social services), participatory family center design and professional mentoring.
Although a useful book, the students found it somewhat difficult to access. It didnt seem particularly relevant to the assignment content.
great layout, very informative, helpful links to further reading
This book has been very useful when delivering my current module on positive relationships. The students had to read around the subject of multi agency working. The information contained within it is easy to access and interesting and relevant to read.
A great book that provide students with the understanding of how to develop professional practice through collaborative working.
This book is reccomended for quite a few of the modules that I teach. It looks at many areas of multiprofessional working. It is clearly set out and easy to dip in and out of.
This book is highly relevant to students studying how multi-professional teams work.
Excellent text that allows students to fully explore multi-agency working and issues that can arise through the process of working together. Very good links to evidnced based research
A good core text for my module where students are studying multi-professional contexts for working in child care practice.
Very good, relevant and informative.
This book initially takes sometime to embrace with enthusiam, but once you do persevere in reading it is very well thought out and interesting read. I particularly like chapters 4 and 5, as they offer some interesting thinking on 'Leadership and Management' that multi-professional working can be twart with problems or issues if not understood.
For any person interested in 'MASH' which encompasses much of the principles of working in multi-professional contexts, this book would provide an invaluable knowledge and understandiing the complexities that suttle and inherent in multi-agency working and help the reader to recognise and develop strategies to address these implicitly within their practice.
