Professional Culture and Collaboration

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Conceptualise how professional frames of reference influence perspectives and practices when working with young people with complex needs;
2. Develop frameworks for practice that facilitate effective collaboration among the various professionals that often engage in complex work with young people;
3. Demonstrate a range of effective communication and collaborative skills which facilitate inter-professional collaboration;
4. Investigate the principles, benefits and challenges of inter-professional collaboration and inter-disciplinary service provision;
5. Identify an issue or complex problem affecting young people and participate in a disciplinary team to develop an effective inter-disciplinary approach to address the problem;
6. Critically reflect on their own learning and the process of collaboration as they experience and observe it in their class teams and in their agency placement; and
7. Evaluate current collaboration practice models.