Collaboration
Also called: interprofessional collaboration, caregiver collaboration, working with other professionals
Definition
Working with caregivers, teachers, medical providers and other professionals in the client's life — sharing information with consent, coordinating goals, and respecting other disciplines' expertise — so that services are consistent and the client is not caught between conflicting plans. The ethics code requires it and it is a distinct skill, not a byproduct of good intentions.
In plain language
Working together with families, teachers and doctors. The client then gets one plan that everyone follows, not several that clash.
Example
An analyst and a speech-language pathologist agree on which communication system to use so the learner is not taught two at once.
Not collaboration
Running a program at the clinic without telling the school, which is running a different one for the same behavior.
See also
Written from
- bacb-ethics-code-2022 — Standards on collaboration
Written from the ethics code's collaboration standards, in our own words. No text reproduced.
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