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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The place of community and voluntary organisations in society at large; The nature of counselling in voluntary and community settings; Clinical work, supervision and management; Research: the impetus for, and the measure of good practice; a case study from the voluntary sector; Focusing on the frame: researching the impact of third parties when working with children; Assessment for counselling in community and voluntary organisations; Issues of containment and holding

The Council for Social Work Education has made a commitment to participate in interprofessional education and interprofessional curriculum building. Across medical professions, there is a common concern about the consequences of poor teamwork and implicit bias. Both medical error and interpersonal misunderstanding are an important contribution to health care disparities. Introducing interprofessional education opportunities early in professional education, offering common assignments to all professions, having a committed interprofessional faculty, and involving interprofessional students in curriculum design are all considered important to quality interprofessional education. At the core of this study is a student authoethnographic investigation of three different interprofessional interventions as part of her MSW internship. This research collaboration involved regular mentoring discussions with her field instructor to flesh out cultural context and theoretical relevance of her observations. The writing and discussion experiences of this partnership brought up concerns about unaddressed complexity in interprofessional team interactions. Professional-centrism was observed regularly, and this lack of respect for difference among team members often foreshadows the respect patients received from the medical team. Social separation, empathy, and avoiding team conflict were also a focus.

Abstract
This paper analyzes an extension of a model of production and predation due to Grossman (1998) to a multiple community setting. In a multiple community setting, defense expenditures in any one community have the property of a local public good. Such expenditures produce effects on other communities. These effects include changes in the distribution of population among communities, the redistribution of predatory effort over communities, and an induced change in the predator/producer ratio in the economy as a whole. The question we address is whether the level of defense chosen by local governments so as to maximize the per capita consumption of their own producers, given defense levels elsewhere, always produces a second-best outcome. Our analysis shows that if the number of communities is fixed, fully rational local government decision-making leads to the same level of defense activity and equilibrium per capita consumption as would be chosen by a central planner. However, if individual local governments are boundedly rational, in the sense that they do not anticipate the effects of their own defense activity on the equilibrium predator/producer ratio and distribution of producer activity, then competition among local governments never achieves a first-best outcome. Furthermore, the equilibrium associated with competition among boundedly rational local governments can sometimes yield a lower consumption per capita in equilibrium than would be achieved if there were no local governments and each agent who chose to be a producer also chose his/her own level of defense.

This study investigates the toilet training of four severely handicapped autistic children who regularly participated in a number of diverse community settings. In the context of a multiple baseline design, the children were first provided a systematic toilet training program in only some of the environments. In a subsequent "continuity" condition, the same toilet training program was systematically and simultaneously implemented within all of the children's environments. Results showed no consistent trends towards acquisition when training was provided in only some of the settings, even when the program was in progress for over two years. However, the continuity approach which coordinated all of the children's daily activities produced immediate and steady gains in successful toileting. This success was evident with children who had long histories of unsuccessful training attempts as well as with a child who had no previous exposure to toilet-training programs of any kind, These data are discussed in terms of the need for and benefits of continuity of treatment across settings for severely handicapped individuals.