Interprofessional Education in a Child Mental Healthcare Context: Children's Nursing and Clinical Psychology Students Learning Together.

Interprofessional education (IPE) is said to occur when ‘two or more professions learn with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care’ (Freeth et al., 2005, p. 11). Four domains are believed to be core to inter-professional education: the ethics and values for inter-professional practice; knowledge and understanding of roles and responsibilities; communication; and collaborative teamwork (DeLeon et al., 2015). All healthcare professionals share a desire to provide high quality care for patients, and in providing that care, it is essential that they work together. It is therefore imperative that training providers find ways to establish collaborative learning, ideally early on in students’ professional careers, and to demonstrate how they facilitate IPE within their curricula (Williams et al., 2017).