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Interdisciplinary Knowledge Translation: Lessons Learned from a Mental Health: Fire Service Collaboration
Author(s) -
Henderson Joanna L.,
MacKay Sherri,
Peterson-Badali Michele
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/s10464-010-9349-2
Subject(s) - health psychology , mental health , public health , psychology , mental health service , service (business) , applied psychology , medical education , medicine , nursing , psychiatry , business , marketing
Collaborative approaches are being increasingly advocated for addressing a variety of health, mental health and social needs for children, youth and families. Factors important for effective knowledge translation of collaborative approaches of service delivery across disciplines, however, have not been rigorously examined. TAPP‐C: The Arson Prevention Program for Children is an intervention program for child and adolescent firesetters provided collaboratively by fire service and mental health professionals. The present study examined the adopter, innovation, and dissemination characteristics associated with TAPP‐C implementation, protocol adherence and extent of collaboration by 241 community‐based fire service professionals from communities across Ontario. Results revealed that dissemination factors are particularly important for understanding program implementation, adherence and cross‐discipline collaboration. Moreover, the findings of this study show significant benefits to both within discipline (intra‐disciplinary) and across discipline (interdisciplinary) knowledge translation strategies.