Rehabilitation Team Process

Building on a conceptual model of rehabilitation treatment effectiveness, this article presents a typology of the team process. Process emerges from the latent structure (relations) and manifest functions (actions) of the inpatient rehabilitation team. Team relations form the backbone of process and arise from characteristics of the person and the profession. Team actions reveal the manner in which the team does its work and is examined with respect to management and leadership activities. In this complex phenomenon of team process, personal and professional orientations interact with managerial and leadership activities. The successful team finds and creates a proper mix of these influences for desirable patient outcomes.