| Description |
[xv], 273 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Critical reflection: a review of contemporary literature and understandings / Jan Fook, Sue White and Fiona Gardner -- 2. Unsettling reflections: the reflexive practitioner as 'trickster' in interprofessional work / Sue White -- 3. The 'critical' in critical reflection / Jan Fook and Gurid Aga Askeland -- 4. Reflections on building a reflective practice community in China / Pauline Sung-Chan and Angelina Yuen-Tsang -- 5. Practising reflexivity: narrative, reflection and the moral order / Carolyn Taylor -- 6. Thinking with the body: artistic perception and critical reflection / Lynn Froggett -- 7. Recasting individual practice through reflection on narratives / Sue Frost -- 8. Disrupting dominant discourse: critical reflection and code-switching in Maltese social work / Marceline Naudi |
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9. Rationalities, reflection and research / Andy Bilson -- 10. Using critical reflection in research and evaluations / Fiona Gardner -- 11. Using reflexivity in a research methods course: bridging the gap between research and practice / Colin Stuart and Elizabeth Whitmore -- 12. Research for and as practice: educating practitioners in inquiry skills for changing cultural contexts / Fran Crawford -- 13. Ethnographers of their own affairs / Gerhard Riemann -- 14. Telling stories ... and the pursuit of critical reflection / Jennifer Lehmann -- 15. Starting as we mean to go on: introducing beginning social work students to reflective practice / Bairbre Redmond -- 16. Critical reflection: possibilities for developing effectiveness in conditions of uncertainty / Fiona Gardner, Jan Fook and Sue White |
| Summary |
"The use of critical reflection in professional practice is becoming increasingly popular across the health professions as a way of ensuring ongoing scrutiny and improved concrete practice - skills transferable across a variety of settings in the health, social care and social work fields. This book showcases current work within the field of critical reflection throughout the world and across disciplines in health and social care as well as analyzing the literature in the field. Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care reflects the transformative potential of critical reflection and provides practitioners, students, educators and researchers with the key concepts and methods necessary to improve practice through effective critical reflection." -- Publisher's website |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [241]-266 |
| Subject |
Critical thinking.
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Medical care.
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Social service -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Fook, Jan.
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Gardner, Fiona.
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White, Susan, 1961-
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| ISBN |
0335218784 (paperback) |
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0335218792 (hbk.) |
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9780335218783 (paperback) |
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9780335218790 (hbk.) |
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