This book brings together contributions from a range of social welfare
settings, including child welfare, unemployment, mental health and
substance abuse treatment, to examine how interprofessional
collaboration and service user participation are present, accomplished
or challenged in multi-agency meetings.
It provides empirically grounded analyses of specific aspects of
multi-agency work and offers a new conceptual framework for
understanding and analysing meetings in various social welfare settings.
This book demonstrates how the realisation of collaborative and
integrated welfare policy is contingent on the interactional practices
of professionals and service users and provides examples of best
practice.