Book chapter
Interdisciplinary care to enhance mental health and social and emotional wellbeing
Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice, pp.221-242
Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet/ Telethon Institute for Child Health Research/Kulunga Research Network in collaboration with the University of Western Australia
2014
Abstract
This chapter discusses and defines the difference between multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary/interprofessional care with a focus on interdisciplinary care as a model of practice which supports equality and interconnectedness of responsibility amongst team members when working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contexts. The chapter describes the various professional and para professional practitioners that comprise interdisciplinary teams working in mental health and wellbeing contexts and their roles. The focus is on an interdisciplinary team approach to providing health and wellbeing care as its ethos of equal relationships and interdependent collaboration is more encompassing of social and emotional wellbeing values. Identification of the issues and limitations of interdisciplinary practice and the means to addressing them are explored within the context of how interdisciplinary care fits into mental health best practice and human rights.
Details
- Title
- Interdisciplinary care to enhance mental health and social and emotional wellbeing
- Authors/Creators
- C. Schultz (Author/Creator)R. Walker (Author/Creator)D.C. Bessarab (Author/Creator)J. MacLeod (Author/Creator)R. Marriott (Author/Creator)F. McMillan (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- P. Dudgeon (Editor)H. Milroy (Editor)R. Walker (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice, pp.221-242
- Publisher
- Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet/ Telethon Institute for Child Health Research/Kulunga Research Network in collaboration with the University of Western Australia; Canberra
- Identifiers
- 991005543735007891
- Copyright
- © 2014 Commonwealth of Australia
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology and Exercise Science; Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Additional Information
- 2nd Edition
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