De-institutionalisation, Organisational Changes And Professional Roles Paperback

India

Stavros K. Parlalis

This book describes the development of a discharge programme in a hospital in Scotland. The aim of the study is to explore professionals' perceptions of how the discharge programme developed with a focus on capturing professionals' experience and knowledge so as to reach an understanding of how best to facilitate a discharge programme. Different groups of professionals were interviewed and different views and perspectives regarding the progress of de-institutionalisation were collected. Based on the professionals' perceptions and with a particular emphasis on those of social workers, the following issues were identified as the key points which have to be taken into account for facilitating stable progress in a discharge programme: the creation of a consortium with centralized authority which includes the establishment of a formal process and joint working between health and social work, the setting up of a so-called "stakeholder" management model, the implementation of specific practices and policies with regard to the actual discharges and arrangements for enhancing professionals' adaptability.

3844380302

9783844380309

English

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

23 May 2011

400

Dr Parlalis K. Stavros received both his Masters Degree in Policy Studies (2003) and his Doctorate in Social Work (2008) by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He obtained his BA in Social Work in 2003 by the ATEI of Crete, Greece. Since 2009 he works as Lecturer in Social Work Department at Frederick University, in Cyprus