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Title
Professionals' views on the development process of a structural collaboration between child and adolescent psychiatry and child welfare : an exploration through the lens of the life cycle model
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Abstract
This study, as a part of a participatory action research project, reports the development process of an innovative collaboration between child and adolescent psychiatry and child welfare, for adolescent girls with multiple and complex needs. The findings emerge from a qualitative descriptive analysis of four focus groups with 30 professionals closely involved in this project, and describe the evolution of the collaborative efforts and outcomes through time. Participants describe large investments and negative consequences of rapid organizational change in the beginning of the collaboration project, while benefits of the intensive collaboration only appeared later. A shared person-centred vision and enhanced professionals confidence were pointed out as important contributors in the evolution of the collaboration. Findings were compared to the literature and showed significant analogy with the life cycle model for shared service centres that describe the maturation of collaborations from a management perspective. These findings enrich the knowledge about the development process of collaboration in health and social care. In increasingly collaborative services, child and adolescent psychiatrists and policy makers should be aware that gains from a collaboration will possibly only be achieved in the longer term, and benefit from knowing which factors have an influence on the evolution of a collaboration project.
Language
English
Source (journal)
European child and adolescent psychiatry. - Dordrecht, 1992, currens
Publication
Dordrecht : 2018
ISSN
1018-8827 [print]
1435-165X [online]
DOI
10.1007/S00787-018-1147-7
Volume/pages
27 :12 (2018) , p. 1539-1549
ISI
000450505900003
Pubmed ID
29569022
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