A presentation at Heritage University @ CBC Week 15 in in Pasco, WA 99301, USA by Jacob Campbell
Time: Wednesday’s from 5:30-8:15
Date: 04/21/21
Content: Group Work in Organizations and Community Settings II
Reading Assignment: Garvin et al. (2017) Chapters 27 & 28
Due Dates:
Terms you might find in the literature around different integrations of disciplines are as follows: multi, inter, and trans. Transdisciplinary work is a hallmark of the Ph.D. program I am participating in. Choi and Pak (2006) provide some concise definitions to what each of these is:
Choi, B. C. K., & Pak, A. W. P. (2006). Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in health research, services, education and policy: 1. Definitions, objectives, and evidence of effectiveness. Clinical and Investigative Medicine. Medecine Clinique Et Experimentale, 29(6), 351–364.
Multidisciplinary (or interdisciplinary) teams can be found in working in child welfare as discussed in the text or in a number of other contexts.
Abramson (2002) as cited in Gavin describes that effective interdisciplinary teams incorporate the following aspects:
Nancarrow et al. (2013) go on to report on what are some of the characteristics of what a good team member does.
One part of doing group work in the community is being able to be a member, an organizer, and a leader. We can all improve our leadership skills… and we are all leaders (whether or not we know it).
[Small Group Activity] Students will be broken up into new groups. In those groups they will a facilitator will lead discussion about leadership (i.e. what is leadership, what are peoples philosophies, important characteristics of leadership, what to do to improve leadership)
Taken from— Nancarrow, S., Booth, A., Ariss, S., Smith, T., Enderby, P., & Roots, A. (2013). Ten principles of good interdisciplinary team work. Human Resources for Health, 11(1), 19. http://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-11-19
[Whole Class Activity] Discuss each of the topics and what they might look like
Week 15 continues on looking at task groups within a social work context. Bronstein and Abramson (2017) look into interdisciplinary teamwork. We will also supplement this discussion with Nancarrow et al. (2013) and discussion about the principles of good interdisciplinary teamwork. We also review what are some of the best practices that work for working groups, as described by Ephross et al. (2017).
The agenda for this week is as follows:
Reference
Bronstein, L. R., & Abramson, J. S. (2017). Chapter 27 - Group process dynamics and skills in interdisciplinary teamwork. In C. D. Garvin, L. M. Gutierrez, & M. J. Galinsky Handbook of Social Work with Groups (pp. 491-509). The Guilford Press.
Ephross, P. H., Vassil, T. V., & Rose, S. R. (2017). Chapter 28 - Group work with working groups. In C. D. Garvin, L. M. Gutierrez, & M. J. Galinsky Handbook of Social Work with Groups (pp. 510-524). The Guilford Press.
Nancarrow, S., Booth, A., Ariss, S., Smith, T., Enderby, P., & Roots, A. (2013). Ten principles of good interdisciplinary team work. Human Resources for Health, 11(1), 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-11-19