1st Edition

Teamwork in Medical Rehabilitation

By Charlotte Lundgren, Carl Molander Copyright 2017
132 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

132 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

132 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Good teamwork ensures the close collaboration and coordination between professional groups and across disciplinary boundaries. This is particularly important in healthcare centres and clinics admitting complicated patient cases, but contrary to what many healthcare organisations seem to believe, effective teamwork does not happen automatically. It needs to be successfully trained and practiced.... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Historical Background

Chapter 3. Teamwork in Theory

Chapter 4. Teamwork in Practice

Chapter 5. Clinical Teamwork

Chapter 6. Team Communication

Chapter 7. Examples of Team Rehabilitation Settings

Chapter 8. Concluding Discussion: advantages and disadvantages of advanced team work

Biography

Charlotte Lundgren is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University. Lundgren has worked with the development of professional communication and teamwork in a wide variety of clinical settings, including rehabilitation medicine.

Carl Molander is presently a senior consultant of rehabilitation medicine, working in a multi-professional team at Rehabakademin in Stockholm, Sweden. Molander has been the head of several Swedish clinics for rehabilitation medicine and has extensive experience in managing team efforts in chronic pain and mental stress disorder rehabilitation.