Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals: A Skills-Based Workbook - Softcover

Gambrill, Eileen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195330951 ISBN 13: 9780195330953

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2009

Synopsis

Critical thinking values, knowledge and skills are integral to evidence-based practice in the helping professions. Those working in this area must be able to think clearly, on a daily basis, about decisions that may have a major impact on their clients' lives. Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals, 3rd Edition, is designed to engage readers as active participants in honing their critical thinking skills, learning a coherent decision-making process, and comprehending its underlying principles.

There are many books on evidence based practice and critical thinking, but none integrate the two as well as Eileen Gambrill and Leonard Gibbs, two renowned professors and evidence-based practice thinkers. And no others provide such a variety of hands-on exercises, with their rich opportunities to learn how to implement vital steps in making important decisions. In addition to the exercises, the authors incorporate unique material exploring the use of propaganda in the helping professions, which is integrated with discussions of related research on judgment, problem solving, and critical thinking. For students in social work, nursing, counseling, and similar areas, this new edition of a unique textbook is a fun and mentally stimulating way to sharpen and maximize their innate decision-making skills and their abilities to apply an evidence-based approach to their daily work, so that their clients will get the best care possible.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195330951
• ISBN 13: 9780195330953
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 432