Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- one Introduction
- two Domestic violence and the medical profession
- Part One Domestic violence patients speak out
- Part Two Clinicians’ knowledge and clinical experience of domestic violence
- Part Three Clinicians’ training and inter-agency collaboration
- fourteen Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1 Details of research participants
- Appendix 2 Useful information and contacts
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- one Introduction
- two Domestic violence and the medical profession
- Part One Domestic violence patients speak out
- Part Two Clinicians’ knowledge and clinical experience of domestic violence
- Part Three Clinicians’ training and inter-agency collaboration
- fourteen Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1 Details of research participants
- Appendix 2 Useful information and contacts
Summary
This section has examined the issues of intra- and inter-agency collaboration and training in order to identify the professional ideologies which influence medical practice. It has also examined the interactions which occur between healthcare professionals in order to further highlight the existence of power within the medical hierarchy. In relation to training, Chapter Thirteen suggested that poor inter-agency collaboration is partly due to the way in which medical training is based on a biomedical rather than an holistic community-based model of learning. On a more positive note, it has also been suggested that moves towards more community-based training will facilitate better inter-agency working, as well as ensuring that issues such as domestic violence are incorporated in problem-based learning approaches. All three of these issues are inter-related and need to be incorporated into training in order to maximise the impact of any initiatives which attempt to address healthcare professionals’ current lack of knowledge about domestic violence.
Box 11 identifies key issues relevant to healthcare professions engaging within an inter-agency context (see over).
Box 11: Key points concerning intra/inter-agency collaboration and training
Healthcare professionals should:
• Be aware of the roles of other health practitioners.
• Examine the potential which specific health providers already have to address domestic violence within their casework.
• Ensure that such professionals have the power and resources to act on their findings.
• Improve communication with secondary services by acting on information received.
• Consider their representation on multi-agency domestic violence forums.
• Look at the types of support networks which they utilise in order to alleviate professional frustration.
• Examine where they would access information about other services.
• Consider their use of other professional groups and whether direct access to certain services would improve relationships with others.
• Access post-qualifying domestic violence training.
• Consider the inter-agency collaboration skills of prospective additions to health teams.
• Encourage the use of community/problem-based learning in training exercises.
• Examine available domestic violence tools in order to identify those which would assist in clinical practice.
• Use and disseminate such tools as appropriate.
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- Domestic Violence and HealthThe Response of the Medical Profession, pp. 191 - 192Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2000