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.
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.
A really useful reference text, particularly for tutors and practice educators working in and with multi-professional teams. I have already used it regularly to inform strategies for interprofessional education.
This book has really enthused my student's wider reading to help with assignment tasks
A student and I both looked at this book; we felt there is a good and clear insight into multi-agency working and offers some practical as well as more theoretical underpinning approaches.
This book is highly relevant to those who work within a multi-professional context.
Different approaches are explored and complexities examined.
for students on a policy course in child and family studies. Recommended this in helping understanding multi-professional learning.
Excellent book
Discussess all the complex issues around these relationships. Considers important studies and has a European perspective.
Very useful for identifying leadership and how to work in an effective way
Recommended read for all students as covers necessary aspects of multi-agency working.
Essential text which supports students through complex multi-professional relationships. Activities prompt valuable group discussions.
Quite high level and more for those working in multiprofessional settings than just early years - but very informative
