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Title: Collaborative Intervention in Clinical Settings (Health Care Forum)
Author : Journal of Medical Speech - Language Pathology
Release Date : January 01, 2006
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 196 KB

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Collaborative interventions in rehabilitation are practices that create equal family-professional partnerships and rely on family expertise to develop and evaluate intervention strategies. (1) They are characterized by truly family-directed approaches in which the service provider is viewed as a consultant or guide. These interventions contrast with more traditional client-practitioner relationships, where the clinician is viewed as an expert with decision-making power. To be collaborative, the provider must employ excellent interpersonal skills, be willing to release a traditional patient-provider role, and help families determine the most relevant treatment goals based on family and client context. Although not simple to implement, speech-language pathologists' (SLPs) increased collaboration with families impacted by chronic cognitive-linguistic impairments has significant potential to improve service delivery by increasing treatment efficiency and sustainability of treatment outcomes. COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES

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