Educating for cross-disciplinary collaboration: Present trends and future possibilities
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posted on 2023-05-16, 12:51 authored by Patford, JLike other service providers, social workers periodically seek to harness different professional skills and insights in order to make a more comprehensive response to client needs. Unfortunately, cross-disciplinary relationships are hard to establish and maintain, due to structural and cultural barriers. Education and training programs can be used as tools to inculcate the knowledge, skills and attitudes on which successful collaboration depends. The targeting of undergraduate students is controversial. Since they have yet to develop a sense of professional identity, these students may resist pressures to trust and share. This paper contends that it is reasonable to begin instruction at the undergraduate level, and explores possibilities for curriculum development and research. In summary Like other human service providers, social workers must come to grips with industrial realities of the early 21st century. As part of this process, they must reappraise their role relationships with other service providers. On some matters at least, it may be possible to transcend traditional rivalries, and develop new forms of partnership and alliance. Education and training programs have a useful role to play in developing the knowledge, skills and attitudes on which successful cross-disciplinary work depends. © 2001, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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Australian Social WorkVolume
54Pagination
73-82ISSN
0312-407XDepartment/School
School of Social SciencesPublisher
Australian Association of Social WorkersPlace of publication
Barton, ACTRepository Status
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