Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 社會政策與社會工作學系 === 107 === This paper studies elderly welfare institutions to discuss how interprofessional team members relate to cognitions toward social workers' function. The study distributed a quantifiable self-administered questionnaire to collect responses from 154 participating interprofessional team members for statistics and data analysis. The aim was to understand the aspects of interdisciplinary collaboration and identify relevant factors that relate to cognition toward social workers' function. The results were then further processed through hierarchical regression analysis to distinguish the interpretative power of each variable regarding social workers' function. The study also included an auxiliary approach conducting qualitative interviews. Four professional members were chosen to respond to questions concerning the role and function of the social worker as a profession. This study found the following results: 1. The job categories of the surveyed interprofessional team members have a positive correlation with personal characteristics, professional role, organizational characteristics, collaborative experience, and social workers' function. In particular, the job category of a director or chief executive performed well in the four interdisciplinary aspects as well as cognitions towards social workers' function. 2. The four aspects of interdisciplinary collaboration have a positive correlation with cognitions toward social workers' function. The better interprofessional team members perform concerning personal characteristics, professional role, organizational characteristics, collaborative experience, the better their cognitions toward social workers' function. 3. Important factors in predicting cognitions toward social workers' function include variables such as job category, personal characteristics, professional role, and collaborative experience, with personal characteristics having the highest explanatory power. Based on the results of the hierarchical regression analysis, the total variance explained by the model is 56.9%. Lastly, this paper gives three recommendations based on the study results: 1. As a matter of policy, there ought to be more emphasis on elderly welfare institutions to improve care and service; modes of evaluation need to adhere to the principles of interprofessional collaboration; laws and regulations on the distribution of social workers among elderly welfare institutions ought to be amended. 2. As a matter of pragmatics, interprofessional team management needs more transparency; interprofessional teamwork needs fostering; institutions need to organize non-official gatherings and host on-the-job professional training. 3. As a matter of academics, there needs to be more research on cognitions toward social workers' function, interprofessional team collaboration, and providing care and service through elderly welfare institution. There is hope that relevant institutions would promote interprofessional team collaboration and increase the visibility of social work.
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