Preservice Education: Perspectives about Integrating Caregivers

Table 4

Themes and examples of perspectives of clinicians.

Theme	Evidence	Source
Collaboration	“We did a lot of using each other to facilitate things”	Interview
	“I was very pleased. We allowed the client to have primary interaction with the caregiver.”	Reflection
Relationship-building	“At the beginning that (working with the caregiver) was a really big challenge for me… especially because we didn’t know them very well at first.”	Interview
	“I like the two days, with Lola, if you are explaining how to prompt it is a good way to see that carryover and reinforce it.”	Interview
Intervention techniques	“Examples of manipulating, modeling, and expansion were given to the caregiver.”	Progress note
	“An excellent job of facilitating communication by modeling appropriately and letting the client finish her sentences.”	Progress note
Differences in records of progress notes	“Continue on expansion on phrases with preferred items.”	Progress note with caregiver
	“Caregiver was instructed to model… and reinforce.”	Progress note with caregiver