Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

Featuring contributed chapters written by practitioners, scholars, researchers, and students within the health care discipline, Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: International Approaches at the Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels assists readers in expanding their knowledge, ability, understanding, and perspectives regarding interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (CP). The book provides readers with international, system-based approaches, emphasizes applications at all levels, and includes examples of student-led initiatives.

The book highlights international IPE and CP methods, models, programs, and initiatives that emphasize preparation for collaborative practice across the continuum of care in a variety of settings. Readers are presented with conceptual and theoretical models; enlightening case studies; macro briefs that illustrate the design, development, and implementation of global, regional, and/or local IPE and CP initiatives; and explorations of student-led IPE initiatives. The contributed chapters well define micro, meso, and macro levels and highlight the ways in which IPE and CP initiatives and programs are applied to each.

Designed to increase readers’ knowledge and foster greater levels of collaboration, Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice is an ideal resource for health care students, professionals, educator, administrators, researchers, and policymakers.

A licensed clinical social worker, Dawn Joosten-Hagye is a clinical associate professor of social work at the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California (USC). She engages in interprofessional education and scholarship at USC, nationally, and internationally. She has worked for Providence Health Services since 2001 specializing in adults and older adults with co-morbid health, mental health, and substance use disorders.