ABSTRACT
This topic, like many in this section of the book, is likely to be part-and-parcel of social workers’ daily experience in practice. Whatever the setting, social workers today find themselves working alongside, and sometimes in competition with, those from different backgrounds (disciplinary and otherwise) to their own. This has led social workers, at times, to feel beleaguered and under threat, as the giants of education and health seem set to swallow up social work and take over its core skills. At other times, it has led to fruitful co-working that has been to the benefit of all, practitioners and users of services (experts by experience) alike. The text we have chosen offers an uncomplicated way of thinking about and doing collaboration and partnership. The Further Reading invites readers to look more widely at new ideas that are emerging about multidisciplinary work in very different world contexts.
