Developing Multiprofessional Teamwork for Integrated Children's Services

Multiprofessional practice in the delivery of services is a central government imperative in the UK and other countries. This book offers a practical resource to professionals charged with conceptualising, planning, implementing and evaluating multiprofessional practice in children's services. Discussion of dilemmas facing multiprofessional teams include organizing and managing multi-professional teams, supporting professionals as they learn to adapt to new roles and responsibilities, and learning how to share professional knowledge and expertise. Featuring useful guidance, theoretical frameworks and evidence-based insights into practice, this book is a key resource for students on courses studying early childhood and families, as well as social workers, teachers, support workers in children's centres, family support workers, health workers, and managers of a range of children and youth services. This book contains the following nine chapters: (1) Working in a Multi-Professional World; (2) Researching Multi-Professional Teams; (3) Organising and Managing Multi-Professional Teams; (4) Multi-Professional Perspectives on Childhood; (5) Changing Roles and Responsibilities in Multiprofessional Teams; (6) Sharing Knowledge in the Multi-Professional Workplace; (7) Making Multi-Professional Teamwork Effective: Dilemmas and Decisions; (8) Making Multi-Professional Teamwork Effective: Service Delivery; and (9) Taking Multi-Professional Practice Forward.