Eileen Gambrill, Leonard Gibbs

Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals (eBook, ePUB)

A Skills-Based Workbook

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190450182
• Artikelnr.: 42635864

Autorenporträt

Eileen Gambrill, PhD, is Hutto Patterson Professor of Child and Family Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Leonard Gibbs, PhD (1943 - 2008), was Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

Inhaltsangabe

* PART 1 CRITICAL THINKING: WHAT IT IS AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT
* Introduction: The Role of Critical Thinking in the Helping
Professions
* Exercise 1 Making Decisions About Intervention
* Exercise 2 Reviewing Your Beliefs About Knowledge
* PART 2 RECOGNIZING PROPAGANDA IN HUMAN SERVICES ADVERTISING
* Exercise 3 Evaluating Human-Services Advertisements
* Exercise 4 Does Scaring Youth Help Them "Go Straight"?: Applying
Principles of Reasoning, Inference, Decision Making, and Evaluation
* PART 3 FALLACIES AND PITFALLS IN PROFESSIONAL DECISION MAKING
* Exercise 5 Using the Professional Thinking Form
* Exercise 6 Reasoning-in -Practice Game A: Reasoning-in -Practice Game
A: Common Practice Fallacies
* Exercise 7 Reasoning-in-Practice Game B: Group and Interpersonal
Dynamics
* Exercise 8 Reasoning-in-Practice Game C: Cognitive Biases in Practice
* Exercise 9 Preparing a Fallacies Film Festival
* Exercise 10 Fallacy Spotting in Professional Contexts
* Exercise 11 Avoiding Group Think
* PART 4 EVIDENCE-INFORMED DECISION MAKING
* Exercise 12 Applying the Steps in Evidence-Based Practice
* Exercise 13 Working in Interdisciplinary Evidence-Based Teams 1
* Exercise 14 Working in Evidence-Based Teams 2
* Exercise 15 Preparing Critically Appraisal Topics (CATs)
* Exercise 16 Involving Clients as Informed Participants
* Exercise 17 Asking Hard Questions
* Exercise 18 Evaluating An Agency's Services
* PART 5 CRITICALLY APPRAISING DIFFERENT KINDS OF RESEARCH REPORTS AND
MEASURES
* Exercise 19 Evaluating Effectiveness Studies
* Exercise 20 Critically Appraising Research Reviews
* Exercise 21 Critically Appraising Self-Report Measures
* Exercise 22 Estimating Risk and Making Predictions
* Exercise 23 Evaluating Diagnostic Tests
* Exercise 24 Evaluating Classification Systems
* Exercise 25 Evaluating Research Regarding Causes
* PART 6 REVIEWING DECISIONS
* Exercise 26 Reviewing Intervention Plans
* Exercise 27 Critical Thinking as a Guide to making Ethical Decisions
* Exercise 28 Critically Appraising Arguments
* Exercise 29 Error as Process: Templating, Justification, and
Ratcheting
* Exercise 30 Thinking Critically About Case Records
* Exercise 31 Critically Appraising Service Agreements
* Exercise 32 Claim Buster: Spotting, Describing and Evaluating Claims
* PART 7 IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL AND PRACTICE ENVIRONMENTS
* Exercise 33 Encouraging a Culture of Thoughtfulness
* Exercise 34 Evaluating the Teaching of Critical Thinking
* Exercise 35 Forming a Journal Club
* Exercise 36 Encouraging Continued Self-Development Regarding the
Process of Evidence-Informed Practice
* Exercise 37 Increasing Self-Awareness of Personal Obstacles to
Critical Thinking