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Multidisciplinary teams and line management

Practical problems and areas of conflict in clinical psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Som D. Soni ,
Leonard Steers ,
Tony Warne  and
W. H. Sang
Som D. Soni
Affiliation:
Hope and Prestwich Hospitals, Eccles Old Road, Salford, M6 8HD (correspondence)
Leonard Steers
Affiliation:
City of Salford Social Services, Crompton House, Chorley Road, Swinton, Salford M27 2BP
Tony Warne
Affiliation:
Prestwich and Hope Hospitals, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 7BL
W. H. Sang
Affiliation:
Prestwich Hospital
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Recent developments in psychiatry have required increased inter-disciplinary collaboration to ensure co-ordination of specialist skills. Simultaneously, changes in management structures of participating disciplines have produced vertically organised systems of management with multiple tiers often referred to as line management. The membership of multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) now comprises individuals at varying levels in management hierarchy and with different abilities to contribute to the decision making process. Managers usually impose attitudes, expectations and obligations on staff working in MDTs which are often major obstacles to effective teamwork by causing ambivalence and opposing loyalties leaving individual workers in invidious positions (Fagin, 1985). This paper reviews current thinking on multidisciplinary teams and present day management structures among disciplines in psychiatry and discusses the practical problems and areas of conflict resulting from their interaction in settings where MDTs are expected to operate.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 13 , Issue 12 , December 1989 , pp. 657 - 661
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