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and it can also be used to conduct a review of each stage of the service process
in the left-hand column of Figure 6.1 in order to achieve best practice
and to learn from each experience.
The authors’ way of facilitating this focuses on the people involved—
client groups and practitioners—rather than procedures, thus ensuring
the services delivered are sensitive to the needs of survivors and their
communities. The use of anticipatory reflection (Sully, et al., 2008; Sully &
Dallas, 2005) enables practitioners to use their past experiences and knowledge
together with their present experiences in writing contingency plans
to prepare themselves for future action, as described in more detail by Wilson
(2008).
The inclusion, as part of the protocols of structured cofacilitated reflective
practice sessions during all phases of the service provision cycle—
from contingency planning to service evaluation—along with the evidence
base for practice, is arguably one of the foundations on which person- and
community-centered emergency responses can be developed and sustained.
It also provides a container in which practitioners can explore their
anxieties about teamwork and service delivery within and across disciplines,
communities, and nations.
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