Collaborative Care

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Practitioners of all professions recognize the need and importanceof collaboration, yet many find it far from easy to achieve. Thisbook provides insights and understandings into the complexities ofcollaborative relationships so that individuals and groups can takeconstructive action to detect hindrances and attempt to overcomethem. The heightened interest in new ways of working together inhealth and social care has merited a new edition of this excellenttext. Four new contributors have enlarged on the pioneering work ofthe late Sally Hornby, adding new material on collaborativerelationships within organizational hierarchies of health andsocial care. Key themes such as the fight for resources, thetendency of professionals to behave defensively towards theirclients, their departments and their resources, and the use ofindividual and group coping mechanisms are revisited. The new focusadds reflections on the effects of the professional andorganizational contexts to these issues and provides newperspectives on the effectiveness of helping relationships in theyear 2000 and beyond.

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