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I See the World Through Stories (interview feature)
No full textConstance Renfrow interviewed by Laura Bender, editor-in-chief of Mud Season Review
Development and Evolution of a Model Interprofessional Education Program in Parkinson’s disease: A Ten-year Experience
Get PDFOBJECTIVE This paper describes development, evolution and learner reactions in a model interprofessional education program for medical, nursing, physician assistant, occupational therapy, physical therapy, music therapy, social work and speech-language pathology practitioners. Sponsored by the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) (currently Parkinson’s Foundation), Allied Team Training for Parkinson (ATTP) is a U.S.-based multi-day interprofessional education program in best practices for integrated, interprofessional team-based Parkinson’s disease (PD) care. NPF sponsored 26 ATTP trainings from 2003 to 2013. METHODS This mixed methods evaluation uses case study document review and observation to outline ATTP curriculum development, evolution, and implementation challenges. Learner-perceived effectiveness ratings, knowledge change, pre-post ratings on the Team Skills Scale, confidence in working with people with PD and caregivers, and trainee-reported practice changes at 6-month follow-up were collected. RESULTS Qualitative results identified multiple factors in building an effective interprofessional education program, including interprofessional team practice opportunities through case-based learning, engaging care networks and continuous feedback loops for program improvement. Quantitative results showed that trainees across professions, geographic regions and work settings rated the overall program and curriculum effectiveness, amount of new knowledge and knowledge change very highly. ATTP resulted in significant post-training improvement in team skills, confidence in working with PD, and post-training self-reported practice changes. CONCLUSION Findings suggest that ATTP is an effective interprofessional education program that could be replicated or adapted to other settings and neurodegenerative or chronic illnesses. The model of combining interprofessional team training with disease-specific curriculum content appears to be an effective “next practice” in continuing professional development
Followership, or Leading Up in Libraries in Brief
Get PDFIn the 2008 text, The Art of Followership, Chaleff, Riggio, and Lippman-Blumen lay out five traits of effective followers: courage to assume responsibility, courage to serve, courage to challenge, courage to participate, and courage to take moral action. In his 2015 text, Followership: What It Takes to Lead, James Schindler lists four attributes that successful followership is built on: belief in the mission, willingness to work toward the good of the whole, loyalty, and unity of focus. Authenticity also plays a part in both leadership and followership. As a follower, being authentic can help a person be intentional and help them guide leadership with confidence (Schindler, 2015). Leaders do not have all the power (Kean and Haycock-Stuart, 2011). One needs followers to lead.
There is much more literature available on followership than what is covered here. However, instead of a thorough literature review, readers can contemplate their own actions as followers, and those of the people with whom they have worked. What is most effective in your work, and with your leadership? If you are the leader, what can you do to support and cultivate these types of traits in those that you work with
Are Psychologists Biased Against Conservative Christians? An Investigation of Implicit and Explicit Bias Among Training Psychologists
No full textThe main purposes of this study were to assess for bias, both implicit and explicit, among training psychologists against conservative Christians, especially in comparison with bias against Blacks, and to explore whether degree of multicultural training, based on cohort year, was associated with lower levels of bias. Sixty-four clinical psychologists in training at one graduate program were recruited to complete this cross-sectional study, each participant completing each measure of bias. Explicit biases were measured using the Spiritual and Religious Antagonism Scale (SARAS) and the Attitudes Toward Blacks Scale (ATB), as well as using feeling thermometers, while implicit biases were measured using religious and race versions of the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Results indicated that participants as a whole demonstrated more explicit bias against religion and spirituality, as well as against conservative Christians, compared with Blacks. Meanwhile, no differences were found in implicit or explicit biases among cohorts, indicating degree of diversity training does not appear to be associated with reduction in bias. Results are discussed in terms of their bearing on diversity training, training psychologists’ clinical work with Christian clients, and the academic atmosphere for Christian trainees