Thinking Teams Thinking Clients
Issues of Discourse and Representation in the Work of Health Care Teams
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2248397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Opie (Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-280 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.1997.tb00019.x |
| OpenAlex | W2072799818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 38 |
The use of multi‐disciplinary health care teams is an increasingly common aspect of service delivery in health care in Western countries. While the literature rehearses the putative benefits to practitioners and clients of such teams, there appears to be an absence of extensive evidence‐based research on team practices to substantiate such claims. What evidence there is suggests that team work is in different ways problematic. This article is a progress report on a qualitative research project into the operation of health teams with responsibility for clients in hospitals and the community in New Zealand. The first part of the article presents some of the main themes in current research on health care teams. The second part argues that effective teamwork requires giving attention to a hitherto marginalised dimension of teamwork ‐ the team's reflexive and representational practices. Attention to these practices appears to be particularly important in complex cases or when the team believes that its work with the client is not progressing as well as it might. The article concludes by highlighting the sociological significance of representational issues in team work and by drawing some inferences about factors affecting effective teamwork
Health care · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Reflexivity · Representation (politics) · Social science · Sociology · Teamwork · Work (physics · Computer Science · Conflict Management and Negotiation · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Engineering · Health Policy Implementation Science · Healthcare Systems and Technology · Interprofessional Education and Collaboration · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
Everywhere and nowhere’
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The language of teamwork
Participation as a multi-voiced process
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Nostalgic and nostophobic referencing and the authentication of nurses' use of complementary therapies
Primary care as intersecting social worlds
Using Reflexivity to Optimize Teamwork in Qualitative Research
Nobody's Asked Me for My View
Some unintended effects of teamwork in healthcare
Using Qualitative Methods to Assess the Measurement Property of a New HIV Disability Questionnaire
Integrating health and social care
Patients as team members
The 'actualities' of knowledge work
Getting the Sergeants on your side
Structure and Meaning in Multidisciplinary Teamwork
Writing Culture
Histoire de la sexualité, Tome I
Doctors' Stories
The knowledge-creating company
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
Pain as Human Experience
Introduction
Texts, Facts and Femininity
Doing care plans in patient conferences
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Teamwork in Psychiatric Settings
Managing Professional Interpersonal Interactions
Decision-making in interdisciplinary treatment teams
The Ethnographic Imagination
Teamwork in the personal social services and health care
The Missing Voice in Interdisciplinary Communication
The potential of transdisciplinary research for sustaining and extending linkages between the health and social sciences
Normative expectations for medical talk
Postmodernism, Rationality and the Evaluation of Health Care
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| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,34 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2023 (27) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |