This presentation aims to demonstrate how to leverage interprofessional training to achieve the following: 1.Equip diverse healthcare professionals—including those in behavioral health, medical, nursing, and other allied health fields—with the skills to apply a family/systemic framework effectively in team communication and patient care, recognizing and navigating varied professional "languages," conceptual "frames," and clinical foci. 2.Illustrate the practical implementation of interprofessional training approaches through three distinct examples: an inpatient rotation, interprofessional group supervision, and collaborative evaluation of family-framed skill development, highlighting strategies for fostering cross-disciplinary understanding. 3.Provide an experiential learning opportunity for participants to either develop skills in facilitating such interprofessional training (for educators, supervisors, preceptors, or teachers) or to actively engage in the training process (for students, trainees, residents, or clinician-learners), thereby enhancing their capacity for integrated communication and collaboration.
Gabrielle Gebel, PhD
Jessica Goodman, PhD
Kristin Koberstein, PhD
Jessica Moore, PhD
Michelle Swanger-Gagne, PhD
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