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"This is the book some of us have been waiting for!" Sue Spencer, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University ? How do health and social care agencies work together effectively to deliver services collaboratively? ? What challenges do service providers face when working in partnership with service users? ? What political, ethical and philosophical issues impact on partnership working? This practical and accessible key text examines the nature and impact of collaboration between different professional and voluntary groups working together to deliver services. The first section explores partnership in terms of what partnerships are, politics, diversity, user perspectives, rurality and ethics. In section two, authors draw upon their expertise to raise key questions, and use case studies to demonstrate the challenges of working in partnership in areas where collaboration is a crucial to effective practice. This includes: ? Child protection ? Drug using parents ? Dementia ? Gypsy travellers ? Domestic violence ? Homelessness ? Mentally disordered offenders ? HIV ? Youth education ? Older people Based around case studies that demonstrate partnership working, the book contains contributions from a service user as well as academics and practitioners from health, social care, criminal justice and the voluntary sector. Effective Practice in Health and Social Care is recommended reading for managers, practitioners and students from a variety of human service agencies. It provides a good understanding of the issues, pitfalls and best practice that need to be addressed in order to work effectively in partnership with other agencies. A must read for anyone about to develop or join a multi-agency partnership. |
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| Table of Contents |
Notes on the contributors Preface Part one: Working in partnerships: from theory to practice Understanding partnerships and collaboration The political drivers of working in partnership The ethical issues of working in partnership Embracing diversity and working in partnership Dependent upon outside help: Reflections from a service user Working in partnership in rural areas Part two: Partnership in action: examples from practice Working with Gypsy Travellers: A partnership approach Not behind closed doors: Working in partnership against domestic violence Working together with people who are homeless Partnership approaches to working with people with HIV Drug misuse and safeguarding children: A multi-agency approach Interprofessional communication in child protection Across the great divide: Creating partnerships in education Effective partnerships to assist mentally-disordered offenders Working across the interface of formal and informal care of older people Partnership and capacity building for African-Caribbean and Asian elders with dementia Part three: Developing and improving partnerships Learning from partnerships: Themes and issues Developing Best Practice in partnership Index |
