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Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Module 13: Supervision, Coaching, and Team Practice · Lesson 3 of 3

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Story opener

Thursday, 4:40 p.m. A participant is sitting across from you, your supervisor wants three notes before you leave, and the answer you need is not in any binder on the shelf. This lesson is the part of the job nobody handed you in orientation.

Learning objectives

  • Be able to functional data is your unique contribution
  • Be able to disagree on plan, never on the person

Lesson

Each discipline sees a different slice of the same person.

Bring functional data to team meetings: what the person did, where, and with what support. Clinicians rarely have that and it changes decisions.

Disagree about the plan, not the person. Frame conflicts around goal alignment and evidence rather than territory.

Maryland guidance & authority labels

Every statement below is labeled so you know what is binding regulation, what is only proposed, what is professional guidance, and what is our house standard.

  • COMAR — current

    Supervision must occur at the required frequency and be documented, including the supervisor's qualifications.

  • Internal best practice

    Bring three items to every supervision: one case, one skill, one system problem.

Common mistakes

  • Describing what you did without describing what the participant did.

    Do this instead — Record the intervention and the participant's observable response to it.

  • Treating regulation as a filing chore separate from practice.

    Do this instead — Let the required elements shape the session itself, so documentation writes itself.

Practical examples

Practical example

Instead of 'met with participant to discuss goals,' write: 'Reviewed the transportation objective; participant identified the #22 route unassisted and named one back-up plan. Verbal prompt needed once. Next session: practice the transfer at Mondawmin.'

Key takeaways

  • Functional data is your unique contribution
  • Disagree on plan, never on the person

Reflection prompts

  1. 1Which part of this lesson describes something you are already doing differently in practice?
  2. 2What would an auditor see in your last five notes that contradicts this standard?

Bring your answers to supervision — the case-study workspace in this module saves written notes to your account.

Knowledge check

4 questions drawn from a bank of 7 · 75% to pass · instant feedback on every answer

1. Which additional point does "Multidisciplinary Teamwork" emphasize?

2. A colleague does this: Describing what you did without describing what the participant did. What should they do instead?

3. Which statement is a key takeaway from "Multidisciplinary Teamwork"?

4. A colleague does this: Treating regulation as a filing chore separate from practice. What should they do instead?

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