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
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.
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
