Professional Collaboration in Services for Mentally Handicapped People
- 1 April 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Social Policy
- Vol. 13 (2) , 185-202
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047279400013490
Abstract
There has been growing academic and practitioner interest in the problems of and opportunities for joint working in the care of mentally handicapped people. The paper outlines alternative methods of such joint working and tests these against survey and case study evidence. Attention is drawn to the danger that joint working may have little impact at patient level and the paper recommends an emphasis on the appointment of frontline key workers.Keywords
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