Ensaio sobre um novo contrato social para a educação Vincent Defourny (Belgique) est le directeur du Bureau de liaison de l’UNESCO à Genève. En tant que représentant de l’UNESCO auprès des Nations ...Unies à Genève et d’autres organisations internationales, il apporte l’expertise de l’UNESCO dans la mise en oeuvre de l’Agenda 2030.
The social work field education liaison role is fraught with tensions, contradictions and role ambiguity, causing confusion about the role, functions and responsibilities of the liaison across ...individual staff, students and universities, resulting in students' divergent experiences and liaison staff floundering in the mire of uncertainty. As an academic, my experiences of undertaking the liaison role across different institutions observing colleagues fulfilling the role differently and managerial changes to resourcing prompted me to review the literature further to develop understanding of the role and to inform my practice. A thematic literate review was conducted in which 36 academic articles were reviewed, excerpts collated, coded and analyzed. Six themes emerged and are explored in this piece: signature pedagogy and the importance of the liaison role; under-researched and ambiguous; roles, functions and responsibilities; a conduit of the university and governing bodies; the neoliberal managerialist context and a call to revitalise the liaison role. Further, reflections on how reviewing the literature informed my practice are shared. It is hoped this paper will provide an exploration of the liaison role that will invite others to engage in a reflective process and to begin reimagining how they fulfill the role.
Objective In Sweden, Consultation Liaison-psychiatry (CLP) has hitherto largely been practiced by enthusiasts with a lack of exchange and consensus on clinical practice. Hence, an important impetus ...for development has been lacking. In 2014, the Swedish Psychiatric Society initiated a work on clinical guidelines in CLP. Since 2019, a working group within the national CL Association has been responsible for this work. Methods To start with, clinical guidelines from other countries/languages were identified, and central issues and themes for practicing CL-psychiatrists were collected. After the formulation of a preliminary list of content, 21 authors for 25 chapters were identified. In the following process, a smaller editorial committee stayed in close touch with authors and presented drafts for external reviewers and for selected chapters. A Delphy-like process was initiated with participation from active CL-psychiatrists in Sweden (and partially Norway). Final drafts were then presented to the board of the Swedish Psychiatric Society and after minor modifications as result of their reviews a final version was agreed upon. Results The Swedish clinical guidelines on consultation-liaison psychiatry will encompass ca 280 pages in print, and will also be published online, in March 2022. Conclusions The development of clinical guidelines is feasible as a process within professional bodies outside of the official governmental institutions. It is anticipated that the guidelines will promote and accelerate the development of CL-psychiatry in countries were Swedish is understood, such as the Nordic countries.
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