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Complex cases often involve clients with multiple needs that must be met through various systems and programs. These types of cases require comprehensive plans to support clients through integrated services and interprofessional collaboration. For this Discussion, review the media program “Barbara—The Human Services Professional: Chapter 5,” which presents a family with many needs. Consider how you might plan integrated services for this family. Then, review the video clip in the Weekly Resources,“Split: A Film for Kids of Divorce (and their Parents)” which brings the children into the spotlight, their needs and possible auxiliary professionals that this family will need. While watching this video pay attention to the various kinds of services you think children of divorcing parents might need.
With these thoughts in mind:
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Post an explanation of why integrated services and interprofessional collaboration are important for the clients in the media presentations. Then, explain your action plan to integrate services for these clients. Be sure to identify the professionals and/or organizations within the planned network of integrated services, as well as their specific function.
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Integrated Services and Interprofessional Collaboration
Services integration is the pooling together of services of different experts into solving associated problems (American Psychological Association, 2009). For example in the construction industry, architects, construction managers and engineers, landscape architects, and interior design pool their expertise do deliver a complete service. In this assignment, integrated service of different professional is discussed with regards to service which may be needed by children whose parents are divorcing.
Integrated services are an approach of solving human service problem from a multidirectional strategy that focuses on all the problems and challenges faced by an individual or group of individuals. For the obvious reason that human problems can be diverse even for one person, it is prudent to outsource services of different professionals who can help. For example, if a bipolar individual is facing a court case of a misconduct at his/her work place, not only does he/she needs a lawyer, but a counselor, a psychiatrist, and a medic all at the same time. The psychiatrist would help in handling depression, the lawyer would handle the court case, and counselor would handle counseling and encouraging positivity on the side of the client. The same applies to the Clients in the media presentation, John needs a lawyer for the divorce case, Child service worker for their children (Bai et al., 2009), a counselor for him and the wife with whom they have separated and a counselor for him about the possibility of job loss from the school. All these professional are needed to help John as he handles the problem caused by the divorce case.
As for John, they need Child service worker to help in taking care of the children, a lawyers and judge to help with handling the divorce case, a counselor to help them (John and Chahana) with the decisions they are struggling to make. The Children in the Split need services of various professionals or institutions including lawyers who can help with protection of their rights, counselors to help them develop positive minds on what is going on, a psychologist and psychiatrist or mental health professional to help manage their mental and emotional development and child protection agencies to help with protection of the children against abuse (Bruno & Bruno, 2013; Darlington et al., 2005)
Integrated services are best practices of helping those facing a chain of related problems like those which occur in a sequence.
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American Psychological Association. (2009). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author. Bai, Y., Wells, R., & Hillemeier, M. M. (2009). Coordination between child welfare agencies and mental health service providers, children's service use, and outcomes. Child Abuse & Neglect, 33(6), 372–381. Bruno, E. (Producer), & Bruno, E. (Director). (2013). Split: A Film for Kids of Divorce (and their Parents). [Film]. United States. Darlington, Y., Feeney, J. A., & Rixon, K. (2005). Interagency collaboration between child protection and mental health services: Practices, attitudes and barriers. Child Abuse & Neglect, 29(10), 1085–1098.
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