Teamwork and Team Talk

Decision-Making Across the Boundaries in Health and Social Care

AvSrikant Sarangi

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Decision-making in institutional and professional settings has remained an area of curiosity for social science and communication researchers. This first-of-its-kind edited volume demonstrates how team talk and teamwork are paramount to decision-making in workplaces. In contemporary Western societies, the conditions of decision-making are rapidly changing with the foregrounding of division of professional labour and distributed expertise against the backdrop of a client-centred ideology that legitimizes shared decision-making. Increasingly, in health and social care settings, key decisions concerning clients are arrived at in team meetings, which have consequences both for the decisional processes and outcomes. This book argues that team-based decision-making can be studied optimally at the interactional level within an institutional backdrop. The contributors of Teamwork and Team Talk select particular sites of teamwork and team talk and adopt different analytical frameworks within the qualitative research paradigm to explore specific talk–work configurations. Like an orchestra, the division of interactional labour seems distributed and coordinated along the lines of role-responsibilities. Bringing together empirically grounded studies focusing on how team talk and teamwork are paramount for problem formulation, generation of options, assessment of solutions and more, the team of global contributors brings to light the tensions, benefits, and complexities inherent to these processes.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:1 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Communication in Organisations and Professions
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781049800523

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Srikant Sarangi is an adjunct professor in humanities and medicine at Aalborg University and an emeritus professor in language and communication at Cardiff University. He is also the former director of the Danish Institute of Humanities and Medicine (DIHM) and the former director of the Health Communication Research Centre.

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IntroductionSrikant SarangiChapter 1: Team Talk and Problem-Solving in Thoracic MedicinePer MåseideChapter 2: A Collective Clinical Gaze: Negotiating Decisions in a Surgical WardGro Underland and Aksel TjoraChapter 3: The Management of Diagnostic Uncertainty and Decision-Making in Genetics Case ConferencesOlga Zayts, Srikant Sarangi, and Stephanie SchnurrChapter 4: Discourse Types and (Re)Distribution of Responsibility in Simulated Emergency Team EncountersGøril Thomassen Hammerstad, Ellen Andenæs, Stine Gundrosen, and Srikant SarangiChapter 5: Contrasting Discourse Styles and Barriers to Patient Participation in Bedside Nursing HandoversSuzanne Eggins and Diana SladeChapter 6: How Language Shapes Psychiatric Case FormulationJohn Walsh, Nayia Cominos and Jon JureidiniChapter 7: Professionals’ Embodied Orientations Towards Patients in Discharge Planning Meetings and Their Impact on Patient ParticipationSara Keel and Veronika SchoebChapter 8: Formulating Problems in Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Narrative Activity within the Boundaries of an Institutional FrameworkChiara Piccini and Antonella CarassaChapter 9: Tensions between Institutional and Professional Frames in Team Talk in Gerontological Social WorkElisabet Cedersund, Anna Olaison, and Susanne KvarnströmChapter 10: Team Talk and the Evaluation of Medical Guidance DocumentationK. Neil JenkingsChapter 11: Pilot Evaluation of a Novel Observational Tool for Collaboration and Communication within Multidisciplinary Team Meetings (MDTs)Amy Gillis, Marie Morris, Nikita Bhatt, and Paul F. RidgwayIndex