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Interdisciplinary Care to Enhance Mental Health and Social and Emotional Wellbeing

Source: Working Together | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing principles and practice

Resource Type: Website or Webpage Article

Audience(s): City or County Agency Staff, Community Member or Organization

Focus Population: Immigrant or Refugee

Topics: Mental Health Partnerships and Collaboration, Wellness

The chapter describes the various professional and para professional practitioners that comprise interdisciplinary teams working in mental health and wellbeing contexts and their roles. The focus is on an interdisciplinary team approach to providing health and wellbeing care as its ethos of equal relationships and interdependent collaboration is more encompassing of social and emotional wellbeing values. Identification of the issues and limitations of interdisciplinary practice and the means to addressing them are explored within the context of how interdisciplinary care fits into mental health best practice and human right