This assignment introduces you to academic expectations involved in independent research.
Weight: 30% of your final grade.
Length: In the research paper, you will develop your research outline into a short essay in 1250 to 1500 words, excluding the reference list. You may not submit the final assignment until the previous assignment has been marked and returned to you. Accordingly, it is extremely important to plan for this in setting dates for the assignments in your contract.
Description: Flesh out the outline to produce a research essay of 1250 to 1500 words on interprofessional education in your field in the larger context of Human Services. Hint: Foreground your learning about collaborative approaches, the benefits and drawbacks of interprofessional education. Your completed essay should show the logic of your essay, contain all the required elements, and use references you submitted in the Bibliography assignment and provide a reference list in APA style. You may expand on your original bibliography.
Use the following references:
References
Crawford, K. (2011). Interprofessional Collaboration in Social Work Practice. SAGE Publications, Ltd.
(UK). https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/books/9781446291115
Howard, L. Y., & McCoyd, J. L. (2023). Social work ‘voice’and inter-professional education: factors beyond
professional culture. Social Work Education, 42(8), 1546-1562.
Craig, S. L., Eaton, A. D., Belitzky, M., Kates, L. E., Dimitropoulos, G., & Tobin, J. (2020). Empowering
the team: A social work model of inter-professional collaboration in hospitals. Journal of Interprofessional
Education & Practice, 19, 100327.
Peggy L. Kelly , Janna C. Heyman, Derek Tice-Brown & Linda White-Ryan (2020) Interprofessional
practice: Social work students ’perspectives on collaboration, Social Work in Health Care, 59:2, 108-121,
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2020.1719565
McCarthy, L. P. (2021). Social work burnout in the context of inter-professional collaboration. Social Work
Research, 45(2), 129-139.
Tadic, V., Ashcroft, R., Brown, J. B., & Dahrouge, S. (2020). The Role of Social Workers in
Interprofessional Primary Healthcare Teams. Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante, 16(1), 27–42.
https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2020.26292
Ann M. Callahan & Dawn M. Higgins (2023) Interprofessional Social Work Practice: A Call for a New
Specialisation, Journal of Social Work Education, 59:sup1, S5-S22, DOI: 10.1080/10437797.2023.2213276