Exploring how Australian occupational therapists and physiotherapists understand each other's professional values: implications for interprofessional education and practice

Title
Exploring how Australian occupational therapists and physiotherapists understand each other's professional values: implications for interprofessional education and practice
Publication Date
2014
Author(s)
Aguilar, Alejandra E
Stupans, Ieva
Scutter, Sheila
King, Sharron
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Informa Healthcare
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.3109/13561820.2013.820689
UNE publication id
une:15148
Abstract
This article provides insight into the values Australian occupational therapists and physiotherapists consider essential for their practice and the values that they perceive as important for each other. Findings from a study that employed the Delphi technique to identify the values occupational therapists and physiotherapists consider essential for their practice were compared with interview results that provide insight into how these professionals perceive one another's values. The results from this comparison indicate that occupational therapy and physiotherapy participants have limited knowledge of each other's values. This is evidenced by participants only identifying a minority of the values considered essential within the other profession and not identifying many of the values that guide daily practice within the other profession. The results hold implications for interprofessional education and practice, where knowledge of the values of other professions in the team is essential. To enable interprofessional collaboration, professions need to make their values explicit and provide their students, practitioners and educators with opportunities to learn about their own values and the values of other professions.
Link
Citation
Journal of Interprofessional Care, 28(1), p. 15-22
ISSN
1469-9567
1356-1820
Start page
15
End page
22

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