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Authors: Jacquelyn Mccroskey, Susan D. Einbinder
ISBN-13: 9780275958497, ISBN-10: 0275958493
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: August 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Jacquelyn Mccroskey

JACQUELYN McCROSKEY is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California of Social Work, where she is one of the developers of the Inter-Professional Initiative (IPI), a university-community partnership providing interdisciplinary preparation for students in child and family serving professions.

SUSAN EINBINDER is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California School of Social Work.

Book Synopsis

Describes the benefits of partnering university-based interprofessional graduate education with community-based agencies, organizations, and individuals to improve outcomes for families and children.

Booknews

Presents papers from a February 1996 conference held at the University of Southern California. Part I introduces the need for changing traditional approaches to professional preparation and addresses considerations of interprofessional collaboration. Part II discusses theories and infrastructures of community practice, and Part III describes programs and methods for linking the university to the community. Part IV looks at challenges for universities in the next century, with chapters on university fiscal management structures and creating outreach universities. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
I	Needs and Challenges for Interprofessional Education	1
1	Remaking Professional and Interprofessional Education	3
2	An Analysis of Professional Values: Implications for Interprofessional Collaboration	25
3	Reconceptualizing Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood: Competing Ideas of Community and Interprofessional Collaboration	36
4	Shifting the Paradigm for Interprofessional Education at the Ohio State University and Beyond	54
II	Theories and Infrastructures of Community Practice	65
5	Interorganizational Relationships: Key Issues for Integrated Services	67
6	Postmodern Urbanism and Delivering Integrated Services to Families with Children in Los Angeles	88
7	Developing Community-Based Systems of Care: Lessons from the Field	119
8	Politics and the "Undeserving": Lessons from Needle Exchange Programs	139
9	Community Collaboration and Service Integration: Models and Challenges	155
III	Linking the University to the Community	167
10	Forging Links: Profiles in Grassroots Innovation	169
11	A Model for Building Cultural Competence into Interprofessional Education for Student Interns	181
12	Professional Development in a Team-Building Context	192
13	Service Learning: Innovative Classroom Approaches	205
14	Lessons Learned: A Three-Year Project to Advance Interprofessional Education in Nine Universities	221
IV	Challenges for Universities for the Next Century	229
15	Defining Shared Outcomes for Interprofessional Practice	231
16	University Fiscal Management Structures and Interprofessional Collaboration among Faculty	245
17	Professional and Interprofessional Perspectives	257
18	Creating Outreach Universities: Challenges and Choices	268
19	Remaking Professional and Interprofessional Education for the Next Century	283
	Selected Bibliography	303
	Index	307
	About the Contributors	317

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