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Angela Olsen, Teamworking Skills for Social Workers, The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 412–413, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcu146
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I was very pleased to be invited to review this book. As a lecturer in social work and nursing education, I believe that teamworking is essential for effective interventions with individuals, groups and communities. Serious case reviews such as those of ‘Baby Peter’ (Jones, 2009), Winterbourne View hospital (Department of Health, 2012) and the Francis report (Francis, 2013) into hospital care, cite lack of communication and the inability to communicate effectively in and between teams as contributory factors in the poor care, and in some cases the death, of people in social and health care services.
This book not only is a timely addition to social work education, but is useful for a range of professionals. Martin draws the reader in with his deceptively easy prose, moving seamlessly from his almost apologetic introduction asking ‘Is there enough to say about teamwork to warrant a whole book?’ to the following ten chapters, which, in the opinion of this reviewer, answer the question with an emphatic ‘Yes’.