Multidisciplinary Collaboration

2 paragraphs include reference 

This week’s focus is on knowing the services that your organization does or does not provide and establishing relationships with other organizations for mutual clients. Consider the following:

Multidisciplinary collaboration can be challenging both individually and at the organizational level. Individually, professionals tend to think in discipline-specific ways, and it can be confusing to collaborate with other professionals with different priorities. Organizationally, the same thing can happen. Organizations have different ways of functioning, so it can be difficult to collaborate with another organization that has its own processes.

Engage in a conversation with your course community and respond to one of the following:

• Share an experience you have had with multidisciplinary collaboration, whether as a professional or even as a client. What was it like working with various professionals? Would you change anything about the experience?
• What do you think of the state of multidisciplinary collaboration in human services? What are its strengths? What could be improved?

As always, if you are relying on someone else’s ideas when presenting yours, you should reference their paper, article, et cetera. This includes sharing references to your fellow students’ ideas!

Response Guidelines

• Your Participation: This discussion is an opportunity for you to review the work of other learners to inform your own learning. Your interactions and anything you share should be courteous, succinct, professional, well written, and organized. Communicating clearly with proper grammar and punctuation will foster more and better interactions with your classmates.
• Your Post: Create a post responding to one of the discussion prompts. Do not create your post as a reply to another post.
• Responding to Peers: As you respond to at least one classmate, please make sure your response is substantive by sharing your professional experiences and helpful thoughts and feedback about ideas they have shared. Try to comment on those where you feel you have the most useful information to share and consider the following:

  Do you agree or disagree with their points? Why or why not?
  How have your experiences resonated with their ideas?
  What can you add to their ideas, building upon the connections you have made to the material so far? Supplement course resources and extend consideration of the topic by including new information or findings from current journal articles, discussing more in-depth critical thinking questions, and providing constructive or corrective feedback or an alternative viewpoint supported by empirical evidence.