Interprofessional and Family Discourses: Voices, Knowledge and Practice (Language & Social Processes) - Hardcover

McClelland, Marleen Iannucci; Sands, Roberta G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572734019 ISBN 13: 9781572734012

Publisher: Hampton Pr, 2001

Synopsis

This volume is about interprofessional communication and through an ethnographic, interactive sociolinguistic, and cultural approach introduces a discourse perspective to the analysis of interprofessional communication. It looks at the various participants - voices - present and absent, invited and uninvited - and their contributions to team discourse about children who are evaluated for mental retardation/developmental disabilities. The authors are particularly concerned about the parents' perspective and how their concerns about their children are perceived by professionals; and how professionals of various disciplines perceive each other and children. The authors view assessments as interactively constructed by the team and identify whose contributions enter into the discourse. Ultimately, they are concerned with whose voice counts and the impact of the interactive process on families and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hampton Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1572734019
• ISBN 13: 9781572734012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Green Judith