Question

To what extent is social work playing  a role in 2a-teams?  Is this one of the major tasks of a 2a-team?

Problem description

For some people followed by the team, we have to take over some tasks that are perhaps unlikely to belong to the core mission of a 2a team. These are tasks that, at first sight, are not easily to be delegated (e.g. to partners), but we do not exclude either that we do not always sufficiently appeal to the network around the user

Impact - effect

The psychiatric issues are sometimes suppressed by a social issue

To do

While making a reflexion exercise, we could give a moment’s thought to the impact of the hospital unit (emergency unit, psychiatric emergency unit) on the current functioning of the team, and on the difference it would have made if the team had been able to develop more autonomously, like the ERIC-team, that is operating without social workers (for this, ERIC is relying on the network around the user without taking care of the social work itself) and focusses on psychiatric core tasks.  For instance, patients for whom the team ERIC can’t rely on a network to support a social problem, are not indicated

Theme

Acute care pathway

Topic

Other

Reference -  contact

Katrien Bockaert, Kathleen De Vogelaere  (MCT Gent, 2a-team Gent-Eeklo)

Mobile team

2A

Project

Gent-Eeklo (PAKT)

Intership abroad - place

E.R.I.C.

Date

April 2013