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Working in Multi-professional Contexts
A Practical Guide for Professionals in Children's Services



April 2012 | 216 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.

 
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

'Comprehensive coverage of the complex challenges of multi-professional working make this book essential reading for educators, students and professionals. Case studies are used effectively and the reader is directed to appropriate further reading. An excellent contribution to the field'
-Eunice Lumsden Deputy Divisional Leader and Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies Degree at The University of Northampton


Although a useful book, the students found it somewhat difficult to access. It didnt seem particularly relevant to the assignment content.

Miss Lisa Holland
Education , Tameside College
June 1, 2015

great layout, very informative, helpful links to further reading

Mrs Sarah Collyer
Childcare Department, Brooklands College
April 17, 2015

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.

Miss Lisa Holland
Education , Tameside College
March 25, 2015

A great book that provide students with the understanding of how to develop professional practice through collaborative working.

Mrs Svetlana Shivacheva
University Centre Croydon, Croydon College
January 6, 2015

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.

Mrs Cindy Fincham
Early Years and Primary Education , Bracknell & Wokingham College
April 7, 2014

This book is highly relevant to students studying how multi-professional teams work.

Miss KATY MEREDITH
CARE DEPARTMENT, COLEG Y CYMOEDD
April 2, 2014

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

Mrs Jackie Plenty
Social Work Department, University Centre Barnsley
September 25, 2013

A good core text for my module where students are studying multi-professional contexts for working in child care practice.

Ms Debbie Amas
Family and Community Studies (Peterborough), Anglia Ruskin University
August 16, 2013

Very good, relevant and informative.

Mrs Justine Gallagher
Sch of Health,Community & Educ Studies, Northumbria University
June 26, 2013

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