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Working in Multi-Professional Contexts : A Practical Guide for Professionals in Children′s Services
Working in Multi-Professional Contexts : A Practical Guide for Professionals in Children′s Services
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Author(s): Davis, John Emmeus
ISBN No.: 9780857021724
Pages: 216
Year: 201204
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 269.94
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

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 centres - 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 analyse specific examples from inclusive education, integrated family support, integrated children's services (education, health and social services), participatory family centre design and professional mentoring. John M. Davis is a Senior Lecturer at Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh where he teaches and researches on childhood, inclusion, disability, and social justice. Mary Smith is Head of Children's Services for a Local Authority in Scotland and is an Associate Lecturer at Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh.


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