Description
Book SynopsisInterprofessional working is one of the key subjects taught across early years, education, health and social care programmes, as a result of the move towards a more integrated practice for children. Written by a multi-professional team of contributors and grounded by their experience in interprofessional work, this book relates the rhetoric of interprofessionalism to discussions and examples of practice.
The authors draw on their experiences of a wide range of practice heritages and contexts to propose that a new professionalism is required in an interprofessional world. They emphasize that it is only by using interprofessional understanding and awareness when engaging with practice issues that professionals will develop the safety and quality in work with children that is now required. The book argues that individuals cannot learn to work effectively in the complex, ever changing world of services for children and families, without first gaining understanding of interprofessionali
Table of Contents
PART 1: CONTEXT
1. Frameworks for practice: Ways of seeing what we do
2. Interorganizational dynamics and trends: system-wide thinking
3. From a professional to an interprofessional?
PART 2: LEARNING
4. Learning for interprofessionalism: Pedagogy for all
5. Mentoring interprofessionally: a concept for peer mentoring in Children's Centres
6. Interprofessional learning and support: a a case study of the Children's Centre Leaders' Network 2008-2010
PART 3: WORKING
7. Safeguarding, change and transitions
8. Listening to the voices of children and families, together
PART 4: LEADING
9. Leadership of uncertainty
10. Theoretical underpinnings of the NPQICL: Inspiration and grounding
PART 5: THE FUTURE
11. The possibilities of an imagined future
Conclusion
