Preparing mental health practitioners for multidisciplinary mental health placements: a distributed leadership approach to cross-disciplinary education and training: Final Report

S Morrissey; Graham Davidson; D McAuliffe; Margaret McAllister; H McConnell; Prasuna Reddy

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Preparing mental health practitioners for multidisciplinary mental health placements: a distributed leadership approach to cross-disciplinary education and training: Final Report

S Morrissey, Graham Davidson, D McAuliffe, Margaret McAllister, H McConnell and Prasuna Reddy

Australian Learning & Teaching Council

2011

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This ALTC funded project is an initiative in cross-disciplinary leadership capacity building which investigates and facilitates structural, distributed and cross-disciplinary leadership for the purpose of preparing students for an initial placement in a multidisciplinary mental health setting. We have investigated the extent to which cross-disciplinary education and training occurs between mental health disciplines in Australian universities. We have also examined the barriers and challenges that universities face when attempting to facilitate cross-disciplinary learning activities. Those barriers include: insufficient support and resources from universities for cross-disciplinary education; insufficient support from schools of psychology, nursing, social work, occupational therapy, and medicine for cross-disciplinary education; emphasis from professional accreditation bodies on disciplinary integrity and the resultant potential for curriculum overcrowding; and the absence of guidelines, clear philosophical underpinnings, and suitable curriculum approaches and materials to support cross-disciplinary education.

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Title: Preparing mental health practitioners for multidisciplinary mental health placements: a distributed leadership approach to cross-disciplinary education and training: Final Report
Authors: S Morrissey (Author) - Griffith University
Graham Davidson (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
D McAuliffe (Author) - Griffith University
Margaret McAllister (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and Education
H McConnell (Author) - Griffith University
Prasuna Reddy (Author) - Deakin University
Publisher: Australian Learning & Teaching Council
Date published: 2011
ISBN: 9781921856860
Copyright note: Copyright © 2011 Australian Learning & Teaching Council. This work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia Licence. Under this Licence you are free to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and to make derivative works. Support for the original work was provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd.
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449531702621
Output Type: Report

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