Product Description

Practitioners of all professions recognize the need and importance of collaboration, yet many find it far from easy to achieve. This book provides insights and understandings into the complexities of collaborative relationships so that individuals and groups can take constructive action to detect hindrances and attempt to overcome them.

The heightened interest in new ways of working together in health and social care has merited a new edition of this excellent text. Four new contributors have enlarged on the pioneering work of the late Sally Hornby, adding new material on collaborative relationships within organizational hierarchies of health and social care. Key themes such as the fight for resources, the tendency of professionals to behave defensively towards their clients, their departments and their resources, and the use of individual and group coping mechanisms are revisited. The new focus adds reflections on the effects of the professional and organizational contexts to these issues and provides new perspectives on the effectiveness of helping relationships in the year 2000 and beyond.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #289653 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-13
• Released on: 2000-12-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Back Cover
Practitioners of all professions recognise the need and importance of collaboration, yet many find it far from easy to achieve. One way to find help in understanding the nature and complexity of collaborative practice is to study the dynamic nature of relationships that transcend boundaries between users and professional providers, and between different professional groups. The heightened interest in new ways of working together in health and social care has merited a new edition of this excellent text. With the help of four new contributors the focus of the original text has been retained but also enlarged in order to address collaborative relationships within organisational hierarchies of health and social care.

Customer Reviews

A useful text on collaborative alliances.
A very useful text for health care professionals seeking to engage into collaborative alliances. Several examples of collaboration are given for the professional to analyse in conjunction with the authors own findings. The studies are taken from observations made by the author into various relationships between professionals, carers and patients. This provides an easy to read format which could provide a framework for those professionals who are searching for further information on how to plan and implement collaborative events or relationships. Overall this book provides a good insight into collaborative relationships in the health care setting.