Develops a comprehensive framework for interdisciplinary health care teams.
Introduction Are Health Care Teams What We Think They Are? Developing and Maintaining Interdisciplinary Health Care Teams Intangibles That Affect Team Development and Maintenance Communicating in Teamwork: Understanding Professional Differences and Their Implications for Working Together The Science and the Art of Interdisciplinary Practice Leadership and Power for Interdisciplinary Practice Conflict and Problem Solving as Indicators of Team Function Team Members as Learners and Teachers Bibliography Index
THERESA J. K. DRINKA worked for 20 years with interdisciplinary health care teams as a clinician, trainer, administrator, and researcher at the University of Wisconsin and the Department of Veterans Affairs./e In 1996 she founded River's Edge Consulting and codeveloped Team Signatures, a unique technology that allows trainers to evaluate a team's changing dynamics.
PHILLIP G. CLARK is Professor of Gerontology and the Director of both the Program in Gerontology and the Rhode Island Geriatric Education Center at The University of Rhode Island./e He has extensive experience in teaching interdisciplinary health care team courses, developing interdisciplinary health care research and demonstration projects, and consulting on interdisciplinary educational development and evaluation projects in the U.S. and Canada.
"At last a book that provides a theory for interdisciplinary health
care teams. A thoughtful and provocative analysis of what teams
are, how they work and how they can work better. This book will be
invaluable to anyone who wants to learn about teams or to teach
others about teams. It is full of useful real-world examples of how
health care teams operate. I recommend it for all health care
students and professionals who are expected to know how to be a
team member without ever having been trained."-Kathy Hyer, DrPAL
Co-Principal Investigator Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training
Program Resource Center Faculty University of South Florida
"Drinka and Clark provide a framework for interdisciplinary
teamwork that meets the challenges of our contemporary health care
arena. This is an important new resource for those who must step up
to the challenges of today's environment and recognize the
importance of effective team interaction in service
delivery."-Diana L. Kongevick Executive Director Public Employees
Benefits Cooperative of North Texas
"Everything you want to know about health care teams and how they
work (or fail to work) is provided in this handbook. The emphasis
on teaching of teamwork skills is particularly welcome."-Rosalie A.
Kane, DSW Professor, School of Public Health Adjunct Professor,
School of Social Work University of Minnesota
"It is extremely exciting to note the new work of Theresa Drinka
and Phil Clark in their textbook, entitled Healthcare Teamwork:
Interdisciplinary Practice And Teaching. Teams have changed
drastically over the last decades, and this new book adds
substantially to our understanding of what needs to be
accomplished, and what should be considered when planning for
interdisciplinary health care teams training and practice. The text
is brought alive with interesting vignettes, excellent tables and
graphics, and the authors use their substantial knowledge of the
subject to bring us the latest content needed for understanding
interdisciplinary practice and teaching. This text should be
required reading for all undergraduates who will ultimately become
clinicians in order to prepare them for the real world of
practice."-Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN Professor of Nursing New
York University
"It is thrilling to realize that graduate students in the health
care professions who take my interdisciplinary teamwork course will
now have an outstanding and comprehensive resource for learning
about and practicing effective teamwork. Drinka and Clark's book is
very readable and thought-provoking.... Most importantly,
strategies for resolving...are presented with clarity and
creativity, providing readers with opportunities for didactic and
experiential learning."-Patricia A. Miller, OTR, EdD Assistant
Professor in Clinical Occupational Therapy and Clinical Public
Health Columbia University
"The material covers the state of the art of interdisciplinary
health care teamwork. I especially liked the case study approach.
The models which are at the core of the material serve as learning
tools to which readers can return as questions arise in their team
development experience."-John Toner, EdD Associate Clinical
Professor, Psychiatry Columbia University
"This book offers a handy compendium on interdisciplinary
teamwork.... Developing and sustaining and interdisciplinary team
is hard work; it is no task for the uncommitted. This is a book
about how to do it not whether to do it. It is a book for
believers."-Robert L. Kane, MD Minnesota Chair in Long-term Care
and Aging University of Minnesota School of Public Health
"This work documents the accumulated wisdom of the authors, it is
clearly the product of wide and reflective experience.... Overall
this is a fine book that will serve as a guide for students and
professionals.... Thoughtful study of this one will enhance the
practice of health care teamwork thereby improving the care of
patients with complex needs."-A.S. Macpherson, MD Professor
Emeritus McMaster University
.,."a welcome arrival, providing a comprehensive description,
analysis ans discussion of the interdisciplinary team in a health
care setting...Everyone with and interest in health care teamwork
will do well to read the foreward carefully., , , a gift to the
field....a valuable tool for beginners as well as pertinent
reference and refresher course for those engaged in team practice
and education. Almost all the concepts, sociological analysis, and
guidelines are equally applicable for interdisciplinary team care
in other non-health care settings. It is a valuable and important
resource for both practitioners, educators and administrators
within all disciplines as well as for students at all
levels."-Journal of Geronotological Social Work
?...a welcome arrival, providing a comprehensive description,
analysis ans discussion of the interdisciplinary team in a health
care setting...Everyone with and interest in health care teamwork
will do well to read the foreward carefully., , , a gift to the
field....a valuable tool for beginners as well as pertinent
reference and refresher course for those engaged in team practice
and education. Almost all the concepts, sociological analysis, and
guidelines are equally applicable for interdisciplinary team care
in other non-health care settings. It is a valuable and important
resource for both practitioners, educators and administrators
within all disciplines as well as for students at all
levels.?-Journal of Geronotological Social Work
?Students, educators, and practioners of interdisciplinary teamwork
in health care delivery will find this text to be a comprehensive,
thoughtful, and empathetic treatment of the challenges team members
face in the context of contemporary health care....With this book
as a guide, health care providers and students will be well
equipped to increase their effectiveness as members and leaders of
interdisciplinary teams.?-Journal of Allied Health
"Students, educators, and practioners of interdisciplinary teamwork
in health care delivery will find this text to be a comprehensive,
thoughtful, and empathetic treatment of the challenges team members
face in the context of contemporary health care....With this book
as a guide, health care providers and students will be well
equipped to increase their effectiveness as members and leaders of
interdisciplinary teams."-Journal of Allied Health
..."a welcome arrival, providing a comprehensive description,
analysis ans discussion of the interdisciplinary team in a health
care setting...Everyone with and interest in health care teamwork
will do well to read the foreward carefully., , , a gift to the
field....a valuable tool for beginners as well as pertinent
reference and refresher course for those engaged in team practice
and education. Almost all the concepts, sociological analysis, and
guidelines are equally applicable for interdisciplinary team care
in other non-health care settings. It is a valuable and important
resource for both practitioners, educators and administrators
within all disciplines as well as for students at all
levels."-Journal of Geronotological Social Work
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