Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals: A Skills-Based Workbook

ISBN-13: 9780195330953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 432 str.

Leonard Gibbs; Eileen Gambrill

Opis

Critical thinking values, knowledge, and skills are integral to evidence-based practice in the helping professions. Practitioners must be able to think clearly, on a daily basis, about decisions that may change their clients' lives. Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals, 3rd Edition, is designed to engage readers as active participants in honing their critical thinking skills, mastering a coherent decision-making process, and integrating the evidence-based practice process into their work with clients.

In this interactive skills-based workbook, 37 hands-on exercises offer rich opportunities for students in professional education programs to learn how to make informed decisions. Unique material exploring the use of propaganda in advertising and discussing the research on judgment and problem solving highlight the connection between critical thinking and evidence-based practice. For students in social work, nursing, counseling, and psychology, this new edition of a unique workbook is a fun and thought-provoking way to sharpen and maximize their decision-making skills so that they can provide their clients with the best care possible.

* Fun, interactive exercises emphasize learning by doing

* Integrates research and practice, practice and policy, and critical thinking and evidence-based practice

* Helps readers to recognize how to recognize propaganda, avoid pitfalls in decision making, critically appraise research, and improve their practice

* Ideal for graduate and undergraduate courses in research and practice

O autorze

Eileen Gambrill is the Hutto Patterson Professor of Child and Family Studies at the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, where she teaches both research and practice. Her research interests include professional education and decision making, evidence-informed practice and the role of critical thinking within this and the ethics of helping. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Social Work Education, 2000-2003 and Social Work Research and Abstracts, 1984-1988. She received Pro Humanitate Awards from the Center for Child Welfare Policy of the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare in 2001 and 2004. The late Leonard Gibbs focused on ways to improve decision-making in practice through applied research, informal logic, and critical thinking. He also did a great deal of practice research, primarily in alcohol and other drug abuse, and published articles regarding ways to improve clinical reasoning