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Substance Abuse and Brain Injuries

Community Teams

Community Teams and Brain Injury
Challenge of Teams
Purpose of Teams
Making Community Teams Work
Team Development
PDF Version of Community Teams

Cartoon of three team members are sitting with Ed Injury. The first team member says The ad hoc community team is like a team of software engineers, planning and writing programs that are compatible and user-friendly. The second team member says That means working together to 'get the bugs out.' If your program crashes, you need to restart and look for ways to reprogram instructions. The third team member says Clients and their families are important team members, too!

Challenge of Teams

Professionals also report that they sometimes meet resistance to the idea of teams, especially in the early stages of work. Among the early challenges are:

  • Lack of knowledge about teamwork
  • Unwillingness to commit time
  • System or agency restrictions
  • Lack of respect and/or familiarity with other disciplines
  • Geographic distance


Purpose of Teams

Professionals who have worked on ad hoc teams are enthusiastic about the benefits of teamwork. They report:

  • Consistent communications for people recovering from brain injury and their families
  • More creative problem-solving as the result of team synergy
  • Better interprofessional support for working on complex issues
  • Less fragmentation and duplication of services
  • Less opportunity for manipulation

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