TY - JOUR
KW - Education, Professional/standards
KW - Family Therapy/education
KW - Finland
KW - Focus Groups
KW - Humans
KW - Interprofessional Relations
KW - Job Satisfaction
KW - Mental Health Services/manpower/organization & administration
KW - Patient Care Team/organization & administration
KW - Primary Health Care/manpower/organization & administration
KW - Program Evaluation
KW - Social Work, Psychiatric/education
AU - P. Larivaara
AU - A. Taanila
A1 - 
AB - A 2-year interprofessional family-oriented training programme for professionals working in the field of primary services (e.g. health care, social welfare, schools, day care) started in Oulu Province, Finland, in 2000. It aimed to provide the trainees with skills to work with families in interprofessional teams, to support them to cope better and to encourage them to develop new models for helping clients. Seventy-six trainees from 13 professions participated. This paper describes the structure, methods and the content of the programme and evaluates its success. Material was content analysed from participants' evaluations at the end of the programme and discussion during a focus group in which three trainees and three trainers participated. During the programme trainees' working methods moved from being detached experts towards client and family-orientation. Job satisfaction also improved. They began to appreciate interprofessional teamwork and found that client and family-oriented working methods supported families in using their own resources in solving problems. The study indicated that the sufficiently long process of education where the interprofessional collaboration has been put in practice already during the education is needed to change the theoretical framework and practical working methods of the trainees.
BT - Journal of interprofessional care
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 2
CY - England
DO - 10.1080/13561820410001686918
IS - 2
JF - Journal of interprofessional care
N2 - A 2-year interprofessional family-oriented training programme for professionals working in the field of primary services (e.g. health care, social welfare, schools, day care) started in Oulu Province, Finland, in 2000. It aimed to provide the trainees with skills to work with families in interprofessional teams, to support them to cope better and to encourage them to develop new models for helping clients. Seventy-six trainees from 13 professions participated. This paper describes the structure, methods and the content of the programme and evaluates its success. Material was content analysed from participants' evaluations at the end of the programme and discussion during a focus group in which three trainees and three trainers participated. During the programme trainees' working methods moved from being detached experts towards client and family-orientation. Job satisfaction also improved. They began to appreciate interprofessional teamwork and found that client and family-oriented working methods supported families in using their own resources in solving problems. The study indicated that the sufficiently long process of education where the interprofessional collaboration has been put in practice already during the education is needed to change the theoretical framework and practical working methods of the trainees.
PP - England
PY - 2004
SN - 1356-1820; 1356-1820
SP - 153
EP - 163
EP - 
T1 - Towards interprofessional family-oriented teamwork in primary services: The evaluation of an education programme
T2 - Journal of interprofessional care
TI - Towards interprofessional family-oriented teamwork in primary services: The evaluation of an education programme
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 15203674
U3 - 10.1080/13561820410001686918
VL - 18
VO - 1356-1820; 1356-1820
Y1 - 2004
ER -