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Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals: A Skills-Based Workbook
Eileen D. Gambrill
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Paperback. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHBC; JKSN; MMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216. .
Critical thinking values, skills, and knowledge are integral to evidence-based practice in the helping professions. Inflated claims of knowledge, both in the media as well as in the peer-reviewed literature, show critical thinking to be ever more important to decrease the influence of marketing in the guise of scholarship. Practitioners must be able and willing to think critically about decisions that affect clients lives. This requires minimizing the influence of cognitive and affective biases, such as hindsight bias, and avoiding misleading framing of problems that may harm clients but contribute to the profit of involved industries (e.g. ignoring environmental ... Read more
Critical thinking values, skills, and knowledge are integral to evidence-based practice in the helping professions. Inflated claims of knowledge, both in the media as well as in the peer-reviewed literature, show critical thinking to be ever more important to decrease the influence of marketing in the guise of scholarship. Practitioners must be able and willing to think critically about decisions that affect clients lives. This requires minimizing the influence of cognitive and affective biases, such as hindsight bias, and avoiding misleading framing of problems that may harm clients but contribute to the profit of involved industries (e.g. ignoring environmental ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190297305
SKU
V9780190297305
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99-32
About Eileen D. Gambrill
Eileen Gambrill, PhD, is Professor of the Graduate School and Emerita Hutto-Patterson Professor of Child and Family Studies, University of California at Berkeley. Leonard Gibbs, PhD (1943 - 2008), was Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.
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