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Does it Work for Them — Does it Work for Us? Evaluating a New Model of Team Practice
Author(s) -
Stiefel Ingeborg,
Cohen Jennifer,
Moorhouse Karen,
Hopkins Carren
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2006.tb00690.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , project commissioning , work (physics) , psychology , team composition , qualitative property , team effectiveness , publishing , knowledge management , process management , applied psychology , social psychology , computer science , engineering , political science , mechanical engineering , paleontology , machine learning , law , biology
This article describes a change in team practice from a model targeted at individual families to a combined model that supplements family therapy with group programs for children. Unacceptably long waiting lists for family counselling services, high levels of stress in clinicians, and consumer dissatisfaction motivated this change. Robust quantitative data and a qualitative analysis of the project confirm that the change has made a positive impact and the new treatment model deserves to be continued. The article concludes that internal team changes are insufficient in a treatment context which requires more profound changes beyond the boundaries of the team.