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Author Opie, Anne

Title Thinking teams, thinking clients : knowledge-based teamwork / Anne Opie
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 297 pages) : illustrations
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Thinking Teamwork -- 1. Mapping the Terrain Ahead -- 2. Shifting Boundaries -- 3. The Teams and Their Organizational Locations -- 4. Researching the Interprofessional: Theory/Site/Practice -- Part Two. Displaying Teamwork -- 5. Mapping Effectiveness: Achieving a "More Subtle Vision" -- 6. "We Talk About the Patients and Then We Have Coffee":: Making and Shaping Team Discussions -- 7. Teams as Author:: Narrative and Knowledge Creation in Case Discussions -- 8. "Nobody's Asked Me for My View":: Clients' Empowerment in Interprofessional Teamwork -- 9. Performing Knowledge Work -- Appendix: Transcript Conventions -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary A universal method of working with teams that focuses on working with knowledge and is applicable to a variety of disciplines. Drawing on Foucaultian theories of discourse, Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients presents a postmodern look at team work that stresses working with professional knowledge in an organized context
Addressing a key concern in human service and other organizational settings concerned with effective teamwork, this book offers a new paradigm for conceptualizing the subject. Based on qualitative research conducted with teams working with the chronically ill, elderly, and with high-risk psychiatric patients, Anne Opie has developed a method of working with teams that focuses on teamwork as "knowledge work" and is applicable to a variety of disciplines and settings. Most discussions of teamwork have focused on the team players, notably their interpersonal relationships. Drawing on Foucauldian theories of discourse, Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients provides a postmodern analysis of teamwork that stresses working with professional knowledge in an organizational context. It stresses the need for different kinds of disciplinary knowledge in teams, and discusses the role of organizations in achieving more effective teamwork
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Health care teams.
Health care teams -- New Zealand
Clinical competence.
Social groups.
Interprofessional relations.
Medical personnel and patient.
Patient Care Team -- organization & administration
Patient Care Team
Clinical Competence
Group Processes
Interprofessional Relations
Professional-Patient Relations
MEDICAL -- Administration.
MEDICAL -- Practice Management & Reimbursement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Methodology.
Social groups
Medical personnel and patient
Interprofessional relations
Clinical competence
Health care teams
New Zealand
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00043173
ISBN 0231505973
9780231505970
0231116845
9780231116848
0231116853
9780231116855