Understanding institutional functioning style: A resource for hospital and early intervention collaboration

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Abstract
Cooperation between the medical care and early intervention communities is essential to the successful implementation of Public Law 99–457. This article describes how hospitals and community–based early intervention programs function along six contrasting dimensions, and it presents ways to design collabo–rations that take into account the functional dynamics of each setting. Increasingly, intervention with families emphasizes working with–not against–the family's functioning style. Similarly, collaboration between institutions is enhanced by examining and understanding organizational style

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