From Reviews:"...In this book the clinical psychologist Natius Oelofsen describes the processes of learning and the three-step reflective cycle, explaining how keeping a reflective journal offers insights into self and behaviour, and using critical analysis to reflect on even ordinary, everyday incidents.
He shows how the insights of understanding help our interactions with patients and colleagues. Reflection helps us work together, offer support and see where we are able to fit in as team members. The chapter 'All for one and one for all: building supportive teams' is particularly illuminating.
There is so much in this book, including getting the most from supervision, ethical issues and dealing with work-based stress, as well as exercises, activities and case examples."
Nursing Standard, Vol. 26, No. 48, August 2012
Developing Reflective Practice is an essential companion for practitioners and students in health and social care who wish, or need, to incorporate reflective practice into their workplace.
The material in this book is suitable for students and practitioners in a variety of fields, including nursing, psychology, social work, therapeutic child care, and education.
What all of these fields have in common is that practitioners deal with fundamental human needs such as physical and mental health, housing, and education.
Students on placement as well as qualified and experienced practitioners can benefit from reading this book and working through the reflective exercises that accompany the text.
The goal of the book is to help the reader feel confident and competent when confronted with complex and emotionally demanding situations in the workplace. By working through the numerous and varied activities and exercises detailed in this book, the reader will acquire the skills needed to make sense of their experiences in a professional context.
Contents
Part 1: Introducing reflective practice
1. Reflecting on reflection: Theories and perspectives on Reflective Practice
2. How to reflect: The reflective practitioner’s toolkit
Part 2: Reflecting on the work in frontline services 3. Working with people’s stories: The role of narrative in frontline practice
4. Shaping people’s lives part one: Attachment and family Influences
5. Shaping people’s lives part two: Cross-generational influences and migration
Extended example: Narrative and forces shaping people’s lives
6. Inside and outside working relationships: Boundaries in frontline practice
7. Getting to the heart of the matter: Helping people change
8. Reflecting on what is really important: Ethics and values in frontline practice Extended example: Working with boundaries and change
Part 3: Reflecting on emotion in frontline services 9. Absorbing distress: Emotional Containment in frontline practice
10. When strong feelings matter: Transference and countertransference in frontline practice
Extended example: Working with containment and transference
Part 4: Reflecting on staff support in frontline services 11. All for one and one for all: Building supportive teams
12. Making sense of tangles, twists, and turns: Effective case supervision in frontline practice
13. When the going gets tough: Stress and burnout in frontline services
Extended example: Stress and team support.
Dr Natius Oelofsen is a consultant clinical psychologist trained in South Africa and the UK. He has worked in the UK s National Health Service as a clinical psychologist since 1998 in a variety of settings, including child and adolescent mental health, child development/paediatrics, and he is currently a consultant in an adult learning disability service. In addition to his clinical practice, Natius also works as a psychologist, trainer and consultant to a variety of public and third-sector organisations that provide services to children and families, including practitioners in children s centres, nurseries, children s homes and respite provision for disabled children. He has run reflective practice groups and team-based training for senior practitioners and managers in a range of health and social care providers. Further details of the training in reflective practice that Natius offers can be seen at www.reflective-learning.co.uk.
