Question

Shouldn’t we rely more often on the discipline-specific expertise available within the team, instead of rather use other services in case the situation requires a specific professional competence?

Problem description

The 2B teams are multidisciplinary teams.  In addition to a psychiatrist, one can find psychologists, occupational therapists, orthopedagogists (specialist educators), social workers, psychiatric nurses…  Individual discipline-related competencies are not written down in the project file.  Various disciplines act as companions (accompanists, case managers).

Impact - effect

When a client is followed by our team, we occasionally appeal to external services for further specific support, while we do have people in our team having the necessary skills.  In some situations, we are faced with lengthy waiting lists when appealing to these services (in particular the Mental Health ambulatory centres).

To do

To do: in Lille-East we find psychiatric nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, psychomotor therapists, educators…  When a client has a specific demand or need, the Lille-teams are looking for the needed competence within the own teams.   This allows a more rapid response and care periods by the mobile team that don’t have to take more time than necessary.  Which can have a positive effect on waiting lists. Moreover, the integration of discipline-specific input in one and the same operational environment may be beneficial for the client’s care.  In this way the team can get an integral picture of the client’s functioning.

Theme

Starting up and further development/deployment of mobile teams

Topic

multidisciplinary team functioning

Reference -  contact

Yasmina Boumahdi,  Elizabeth Van Mulders, Steven Poels (Gent-Eeklo)

Mobile team

2B

Project

Gent-Eeklo (PAKT)

Intership abroad - place

Lille

Date

September 2013