Turning Child and Adolescent Mental-Health Services into Learning Organizations

In the past few years, the business management literature has seen an exponential rise in articles on the concept of the Learning Organization. This organizational form is said to encourage innovation and creativity, improve adaptation and capacity for change, and enhance the commitment of staff. Th...

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Published in:Clinical child psychology and psychiatry 1999-04, Vol.4 (2), p.265-274
Main Author: Birleson, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Child & adolescent mental health
Children
Creativity
Eclecticism
Health services
Innovations
Learning
Medical sciences
Mental health
Mental health services
Openness
Organization of mental health. Health systems
Organizational factors
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Quality management
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
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Summary:In the past few years, the business management literature has seen an exponential rise in articles on the concept of the Learning Organization. This organizational form is said to encourage innovation and creativity, improve adaptation and capacity for change, and enhance the commitment of staff. The model has been applied in a Child and Adolescent Mental-Health Service with some promising indications that it does indeed support experimentation, eclecticism and openness to change. This article provides an introduction to recent management literature on organizational design, and outlines some of the theory and practice of building structures and cultures which support ongoing evaluation and continuous quality improvement.
ISSN:1359-1045
1461-7021
DOI:10.1177/1359104599004002011