Understanding Work Group Culture on Rehabilitation Units: The Key to Facilitating Group Innovation and Promoting Integration

Understanding work group culture on rehabilitation units: the key to facilitating group innovation and promoting integration.

Understanding work group culture is essential for the smooth running of today's complex rehabilitation units. Failure to understand a unit's culture can impede necessary care delivery innovations and impair group integration. This article describes the phenomenon of work group culture and offers suggestions for assessing and understanding a given unit's culture. It also illustrates how an under...

The Effect of Social Group Work Intervention on Therapeutic Adherence of Patients with Severe Psychiatric Disorders, a Group Work Report

Introduction: Medication adherence has an essential role in good clinical outcome in the treatment of chronic psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder and prevents psychiatric readmission. Medication non-adherence is prevalent among more than fifty percent of patients with chronic psychotic disorders. If a patient stops taking the medicine, the ...

Group cohesion: Relationships with work team culture.

The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between group cohesion and the perceived culture and desired culture of work teams. Two separate studies were carried out with a time interval of one year. The first study had a sample of 50 work teams belonging to different organizations and the second study had a sample of 75 work teams. We used Lindell's index of agreement to estimate th...

Facilitating Group-Level Domain Understanding Through Domain Ontologies

Shared cognition constructs such as shared understanding and cross-understanding are important factors in team performance. Although research has focused on understanding the effects of these constructs, little emphasis has been placed on improving their development. In Information Systems and related fields shared understanding of a domain is said to be facilitated by the use of a domain ontol...

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