Abstract:

Background:

The process of change is investigated during a interprofessional work-based training.

The studied organization serves children with disabilities and their families in Sweden

and contains four different sectors (care, education, therapy and management). The

theoretical framework in the presentation builds on Stages of concern (Hall,

Newlove, George, Rutherford and Hord, 1991), perspectives in change (Fuller, 1969)

and orders of change (Watzlawick, Weakland and Fisch, 1974).

Methodology:

Data are drawn from a longitudinal study. Discussion protocols (n=82) have been

content analyzed. Patterns of documented content from the group discussions have

been investigated by configural frequency analysis. Perspectives, documented in the

protocols were analyzed to find the main concerns.

Results:

From the analysis of documentation four themes: emerge Change; Everyday work;

indirect descriptions of work; and the in-service training. Everyday work is most

frequent documented.

The most outspoken perspective in the documentation is a professional perspective.

There are no specific patterns of documentation. A trend in the patterns indicates

that there were rare to document frequent discussions about everyday work and

change in the same protocol.

Conclusions:

In interprofessional training there is a need to discus everyday work to get better

knowledge and understanding for other professions. Creating relations across sectors

in an organization takes time and the willingness to change is most frequent

documented in the end of training suggesting that the real work for change starts

after interprofessional work-based training.

Research/Innovation focus:

The presentation has a focus on research.