Concern Constructions in Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Risk or Patient Focused?

Tremblett, Madeleine

Abstract

Risk is a high profile area in the care management of people who need consistent support to live healthily. Professionals in multidisciplinary teams need to work together to solve problems, including the chance of risk relating to a client’s care. If a professional is unsure of the level of risk to a client, the multidisciplinary team can be used as a forum to determine the need to implement safeguarding procedures. This chapter examines the use of concern constructions in multidisciplinary team meetings to gain collaborative input from other professionals to determine risk. A range of concern constructions are explored, covering both those that open up discussion between multiple professionals and less successful constructions for creating an opportunity to recruit other professionals’ opinions. The chapter discusses how the ability to voice potential issues is important for professionals in preventing taking action that could have a damaging impact if unfounded.

Citation

Tremblett, M. (2019). Concern Constructions in Multidisciplinary Team Meetings: Risk or Patient Focused?. In C. Smart, & T. Auburn (Eds.), Interprofessional Care and Mental Health: A Discursive Exploration of Team Meeting Practices (247-269). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98228-1_12

• Online Publication Date: Jan 4, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Deposit Date: Feb 20, 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 247-269
• Series Title: The Language of Mental Health (TLMH)
• Edition: 1st
• Book Title: Interprofessional Care and Mental Health: A Discursive Exploration of Team Meeting Practices
• Chapter Number: 12
• ISBN: 978-3-319-98227-4; 978-3-030-40379-9
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98228-1_12
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10474873
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-98228-1_12
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