Abstract: As healthcare providers, we must learn to work with each other and other caregivers/professionals to offer the highest quality of care. With guidance from our Codes of Ethics, this presentation will share practical information on ethically/effectively working together, as well as with other disciplines.
Description: As therapists, we must never lose sight of the fact that our clients function in other environments beside our therapy room, both ultimately, and immediately. When that concept hit home with its full weight as a young professional, it revolutionized my thinking as a clinician. It helped that I had already been a practitioner in another discipline, but expanded to exciting degrees as I learned to work collaboratively with even more professionals. The key thing to remember is that human function is multifaceted, as Trott points out in her extremely practical publication, Oh Behave: Sensory Processing and Behavioral Strategies. Sensory processing, behavior management, education, parenting, familial dynamics, physical function, they all affect our client’s function, and therefore can impact our overall success in therapy with our clients. Therefore, we must learn to work effectively as a team with others who also serve our clients. Further, as Grandin and Barron share in their collaborative work, compromise and effective social skills are important for everyone, not just clients, and can help unlock doors to constructive collaboration, regardless of the relationship. This presentation will share insight into ethically and effectively collaborating with the team members with which we find ourselves working. The resource and relationship of SLPs in our various settings will be explored. Then, information will be shared regarding when and how to go about bringing in other disciplines appropriately to our clients’ treatment programs to most appropriately, effectively, and ethically meet clients’ needs. It is critical that we embrace our role as professional ambassadors and model, as well as encourage, working together ethically and effectively to meet the needs of the clients we serve!
Presentation Format & Methods: PowerPoint and Interactive Lecture
Supporting Research: Reference 1: ASHA Code of Ethics
Supporting Research: Reference 2: Texas state Code of Ethics
Supporting Research: Reference 3: Trott, M. (2002). Oh Behave: Sensory Processing and Behavioral Strategies. San Diego: Harcourt Education.
Supporting Research: Reference 4: Grandin, T., Barron, S. (2005). Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships – Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism. Arlington, TX: Future Horizons, Inc.
As a result of this presentation, the participant will be able to identify how at least 3 different settings for SLPs are related professionally.
As a result of this presentation, the participant will be able to identify/list areas of contribution from other disciplines that could be
valuable to SLPs in working with our clients.
As a result of this presentation, the participant will be able to identify 3 tips to use in establishing effective collaboration with each other
and with other disciplines.