Becoming a Reflective Practitioner - Softcover

Johns, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470674261 ISBN 13: 9780470674260

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

'Christopher Johns is an internationally recognised pioneer of reflective practice in nursing and health care (Nursing Standard) Becoming a Reflective Practitioner provides a unique insight into reflective practice, exploring the value of using models of reflection, with particular reference to Christopher Johns' own model for structured reflection. Now in its fourth edition, this book has been completely revised and updated to include up-to-date literature and reflective extracts. Contemporary in approach, this definitive text contains a variety of rich and insightful reflective extracts that support the main issues being raised in each chapter, and challenges practitioners and students to question their own practice. Now with further scenarios and case studies included throughout, these extracts provide the reader with access to the experience of reflective representation helping to explicate the way in which reflective practice can inform the wider notion of professional practice. The fourth edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner should be essential reading to everybody using reflection in everyday clinical practice. Special Features * New, fully updated edition of a seminal text in the field * Includes an additional chapter looking at existing studies on reflective practice * Scenarios and case studies provided throughout * A practical guide to using reflection in everyday clinical practice

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Johns is Professor of Nursing at the University of Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, UK, and Director of the PhD School for reflective practice, performance and narrative. He is also convenor of the International Reflective Practice conferences and Reflective Gatherings.

From the Back Cover

Reflective practice is internationally acknowledged as a significant approach to developing professional practice across health care professions. Becoming a Reflective Practitioner is a practical guide to using reflection both within curriculum and everyday clinical practice.

This completely revised fourth edition uses an even more reflective style, inviting and encouraging the reader to participate in a dialogue with the content. It develops Christopher Johns’ particular approach to reflective practice through the six dialogical movements and the development of narrative and performance. 

The book features examples taken from everyday practice, which reveal reflection as something lived rather than just a theoretical concept and demonstrate the significant impact of reflection on realising desirable practice. The title also explores areas of key significance for professional health care curricula and development, including the real meaning of fundamental concepts such as "holistic" and "caring".

Key features 

• A practical guide to applying the model of structured reflection
• Reflects significant developments in reflective and narrative theory
• Examines the nature of 'desirable' practice and factors that constrain its realisation in clinical practice
• Develops reflective practice within a curriculum
• Illuminates reflective practice writing through practitioner examples and case studies
• Engages practitioners in professional and critical dialogue, encouraging them to take responsibility for developing their clinical practice

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470674261
• ISBN 13: 9780470674260
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 336