CC1.2 – Psychological safety and containment

In focusing on psychological safety in health care teams, Edmondson, Higgins, Singer, and Weiner (2016) defined psychological safety as a belief in a context being safe for interpersonal risk taking. Containment is a way of providing contexts that are psychologically safe.

The value of psychological containment is brilliantly described by Amy Edmundson. To learn more about why psychologically safe spaces are essential in promoting high performing teams, watch the Ted Talk below.

Psychological safety is a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns or mistakes

Amy Edmondson

Why is psychological safety important, and how does it relate to co-consulting?

References

Bion, W. R. (1994) Learning from Experience, Jason Aronson.

Edmondson, A. C., Higgins, M., Singer, S. and Weiner, J. (2016) ‘Understanding psychological safety in health care and education organizations: A comparative perspective’, Research in Human Development, United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 65–83 [Online]. DOI: 10.1080/15427609.2016.1141280.

Freeman, S. F. (2020) Psychological Containment: A Critical Leadership Success Factor [Online]. Available at https://medium.com/knowledge-leadership/psychological-containment-284b3a7f0875 (Accessed 11 June 2021).  


Once you have watched The role of psychological containment, note down your reflections on your own organisation in the table below. You can export them to a Word document

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i found it was very interested how to see person to stand up a d to express their concern without what band or manager to work as team. also this will help with my project

I have found this a little difficult, but now I understand, it is interesting finding out about the various ways in which both myself and co consulting works hand in hand. This will allow me to move forward more easily in my role as IPC champion

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