Sue White / Jan Fook / Fiona Gardner

Broschiertes Buch

Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care

Beschreibung

"... the book makes an excellent contributionto the library of those keen to delve further intothe realm of critical reflection, understand variousinterpretations of interdisciplinary practices, anduse these to aid their own and others' professionalpractice, exploration and development." Learning in Health and Social Care * How can professionals reflect critically on the aspects of their work they take for granted? * How can professionals practise with creativity, intelligence and compassion? * What current methods and frameworks are available to assist professionals to reflect critically on their practice? 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. Contributors: Gurid Aga Askeland, Andy Bilson, Fran Crawford, Jan Fook, Lynn Froggett , Sue Frost, Fiona Gardner, Jennifer Lehmann, Marceline Naudi, Bairbre Redmond, Gerhard Reimann, Colin Stuart, Pauline Sung-Chan, Carolyn Taylor, Susan White, Elizabeth Whitmore, Angelina Yuen-Tsang.

Autor

Jan Fook and Fiona Gardner currently work in the Centre for Professional Development at La Trobe University, where the main activities are the teaching of critical reflection in short courses to a range of professionals. In 2003 they provided 41 workshop series, lectures or seminars on critical reflection to a range of professionals. Participants totalled over 600. Sue White is Director of the Centre for Health and Social Care Research at the University of Huddersfield. With Carolyn Taylor she designed and taught an MA course on critical thinking and reflective decision-making for a range of health and welfare professionals which has become a distance-learning unit. She co-authored Clinical Judgement in the Health and Welfare Professions published by OpenUP in 2003 and Practising Reflexivity in Health and Welfare with Carolyn Taylor (OpenUP 2000).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780335218783
• ISBN-10: 0335218784
• Artikelnr.: 21952293