Universities and Communities: Remaking Professional and Interprofessional Education for the Next Century

by Susan D. Einbinder, Jacquelyn McCroskey

Overview

Leaders in interprofessional education efforts examine the potential and the challenges of developing effective partnerships between universities and communities focusing on improving the lives of families and children. Until recently, higher education has had little to do with the multiple service reform efforts underway across the country in response to widely perceived crisis in services for families and children. By maintaining professional preparation programs that emphasize separation between disciplines and increasing specialization, universities have typically reinforced service fragmentation. This book suggests steps that universities can take toward solutions by changing current approaches to professional education in multiple disciplines, supplementing professional education with interprofessional training, and developing effective partnerships with communities to improve outcomes for families and children.

Directed toward those academics in professional preparation programs and allied professionals, this book describes changes underway in professional practice with families and children, including service integration, multidisciplinary service provision, and other collaborative efforts, and suggests steps that universities can take to partner with community members and community-based professionals. A broad range of disciplines and perspectives are represented including social work, education, public administration, geography, urban planning, nursing, psychology and medicine, and other allied fields. The chapters are organized in four parts: the needs and challenges for interprofessional education, changing theories and infrastructures of community practice, linking the university to the community, and challenges for universities for the next century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275958497
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/20/1998
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Needs and Challenges for Interprofessional Education
Remaking Professional and Interprofessional Education by Jacquelyn McCroskey
An Analysis of Professional Values: Implications for Interprofessional Collaboration by Gary J. Wood
Reconceptualizing Mr. Rogers' Neighborhoods: Competing Ideas of Community and Interprofessional Collaboration by Susan D. Einbinder and David C. Sloane
Shifting the Paradigm for Interprofessional Education at Ohio State University and Beyond by R. Michael Casto, Steven A. Harsh and Luvern L. Cunningham
Theories and Infrastructures of Community Practice
Interorganizational Relationships: Key Issues for Integrated Services by Peter J. Robertson
Postmodern Urbanism and Delivering Integrated Services to Families with Children in Los Angeles by Jennifer R. Wolch and Jessia Walsh
Developing Community Based Systems of Care: Lessons from the Field by Kathleen H. Wilber and Robert C. Myrtle
Politics and the "Undeserving": Lessons from Needle Exchange Programs by H. Eric Schockman
Community Collaboration and Service Integration: Models and Challenges by Katharine Briar-Lawson
Linking the University to the Community
Forging Links: Profiles in Grassroots Innovation by Margaret Gatz and Todd C. O'Hearn
A Model for Building Cultural Competence into Interprofessional Education for Student Interns by Ramon M. Salcido
Professional Development in a Team Building Context by Stephanie B. Taylor-Dinwiddie and Margarita Arvatia
Service Learning: Innovative Classroom Approach by Maryalice Jordan-Marsh
Lessons Learned: A Three-Year Project to Advance Interpersonal Education in Nine Universities by Eileen Foley
Challenges for Universities for the Next Century
Defining Shared Outcomes for Interprofessional Practice by Julena M. Lind
University Fiscal Management Structures and Interprofessional Collaboration among Faculty by Lawrence O. Picus
Professional and Interprofessional Perspectives by Rino J. Patti and Guilbert Hentschke
Creating Outreach Universities: Challenges and Choices by Richard Lerner, Lou Anna K. Simon and Darcy B. Mitchell
Remaking Professional and Interprofessional Education for the Next Century by Susan D. Einbinder
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

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.

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