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Product Description In this important text, Malcolm Payne shows how team members in care services can use networking and team- building to strengthen their practice by working with wider networks of agencies, professionals, and service users. He brings traditional team development up to date, includingperspectives from research, management ideas, and professional writings. Each chapter contains a concise account of new ideas in teamwork, practical guidance on teambuilding, and teambuilding activities. Team development activities are discussed in the appendix. Review "... recognizes the critical role of teams in contemporary professional practice.... The book is rich in case material as well as broad in its conceptual discussion." ―Thomas Meenaghan, New York University"This is an exceptionally rich text...Very appropriate for advanced practice." ―Christian Itin, Greater Rochester, Collaborative MSW Program About the Author Malcolm Payne is the director of psycho-social and spiritual care at St. Christopher's Hospice in London. He is emeritus professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. He has been extensively involved in international social work, leading and working on projects to develop socialwork and social policy in Russia, China, and Eastern Europe. He has written 10 books and 250 shorter works published in 13 languages, including the best-sellingModern Social Work Theory as well asWhat is Professional Social Work?. He is also co-author ofSocial Work in End-of-Life and PalliativeCare.