A Research and Development Framework for Interprofessional Team Collaboration

• In Event: Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: Partnerships in Health and Education

Abstract

As poverty rates increase, many children and families have multiple needs that outstrip a single profession’s competence. Interprofessional teams have been structured in response. Unfortunately, many such groups never achieve the status of an authentic team, and claims about their ability to collaborate often are hollow. In brief, there are manifest needs for theoretically-grounded, research supported frameworks for interprofessional team collaboration and its important companion—organizational partnerships. The research and development framework provided herewith is founded on the core idea that teams, collaboration, and partnerships are interventions, which require detailed specification. This analysis prioritizes collaboration social capital, indicating that it yields collaborative competence, collective intelligence and relational agency as proximal outcomes and facilitating distal outcomes for families, organizations, and policy.

Author

• Hal A. Lawson, University at Albany - SUNY