Joint Social Work and Nursing Collaborative Learning Initiative, Part One
Chris Wagstaff and Tarsem Singh Cooner The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Develop an interdisciplinary dialogue on improving service delivery of mental health care. Objectives: •To explore roles and values within the interdisciplinary team; •To explore how different theoretical perspectives may be helpful to practitioners, service users and carers in making sense of mental distress; •For students to explore the different perspectives and meaning of self harm from an interdisciplinary perspective; •Developing an understanding the experience of in-patient care, and the social implications thereof. Outline of main content: The sessions delivered were Interdisciplinary working, Different theoretical perspectives on mental distress, Self Harm and Implications of mental health in-patient care. A variety of teaching practices were used: Preparatory learning: Workbook and Video material to be viewed by WebCT, Development of Wikis, Verbal instruction, Group discussion and Input from a variety of instructors. Service users and carers worked as integral members of the teaching team meaning they were involved in the designing, delivery and evaluation of the fully interdisciplinary teaching. Conclusions and implications: Whilst the conclusions/ outcomes from '09 are not yet known the '08 course participants were asked for final comments/observations on the collaborative learning initiative. These re-enforced the key themes from earlier questionnaire responses; students ...
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