Handing Over: Developing Consistency Across Shifts in Residential and Health Settings - Softcover

Mason, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185575018X ISBN 13: 9781855750180

Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

This book is about that idea and how it can be used to develop consistency across shifts in residential and health settings. It demonstrates that passing information productively from one shift to another is not about the information itself, but about the context in which the passing takes place.

About this title

About the Author:

Barry Mason is the Director of The Institute of Family Therapy in London. He has been involved in the training of family therapists and systemic practitioners since the early 1980s. He chairs the advanced training in supervision at the Institute, and co-chairs the doctoral programme. He is also involved in developing clinical, training and research aspects of a relational approach to the management of chronic pain.

Review:

This book introduces a new way of conducting a handover which allows the workers themselves to see the process from a wider perspective and to gather information in a different way. The major change is that the team coming on shift take charge of the handover rather than the one going off shift. The new shift then interviews the old.The book gives a clear, practical account of this new model and contains many ideas, particularly relating to interviewing skills, which can be used in other aspects of one's work. There are numerous coaching exercises for the individuals and staff teams as well as verbatim examples of the new handover in action.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 185575018X
• ISBN 13: 9781855750180
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96