Abstract
This study clarified the significance of a multidisciplinary team that practiced comprehensive support at a community child-rearing support center for 10 years. Semi-structured interviews were administered to five former staff members of the center to analyze their multidisciplinary narratives for collaborative learning. The knotworking theory of Yrjö Engeström (2008) was applied to analyze the verbatim data. The result revealed that the sense of security provided by multiple professions improved the users’ comfort level, indicating the need for (1) the creation of an atmosphere of consultation and acceptance, (2) sensitivity to the needs and collaborative decision-making, (3) shared initiative, (4) preventive support by a new professional group formed over a long time, and (5) multidisciplinary team according to the actual situation in the region. In the new trend of strengthening comprehensive support to child rearing, the significance of multidisciplinary teams, which did not exist previously, was demonstrated.
