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Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care Sue White

Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care By Sue White

Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care by Sue White


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Summary

This book 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.

Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care Summary

Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care by Sue White

... 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.

About Sue White

Jan Fook works at the School of Social Work Studies, at the University of Southampton Fiona Gardner currently works 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).

Table of Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

PART I: FRAMEWORKS FOR UNDERSTANDING CRITICAL REFLECTION

Chapter 1: Critical Reflection: A Review of Contemporary Literature and Understandings: Jan Fook, Susan White and Fiona Gardner

Chapter 2: Unsettling Reflections: The Reflexive Practitioner as 'Trickster' in Inter-Professional Work: Susan White

Chapter 3: The 'Critical' in Critical Reflection: Jan Fook and Gurid Aga Askeland

PART II: PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

Chapter 4: Reflections on Building a Reflective Practice Community in China: Pauline Sung-Chan and Angelina Yuen-Tsang

Chapter 5: Practising Reflexivity: Narrative, Reflection And The Moral Order: Carolyn Taylor

Chapter 6: Thinking with the body: artistic perception and critical reflection: Lynn Froggett

Chapter 7: Recasting individual practice through reflection on narratives: Sue Frost

Chapter 8: Disrupting Dominant Discourse: Critical Reflection and Code-switching in Maltese Social Work: Marceline Naudi

PART III: RESEARCH

Chapter 9: Rationalities, Reflection and Research: Andy Bilson

Chapter 10: Using Critical Reflection In Research And Evaluation: Fiona Gardner

Chapter 11: Using reflexivity in a research methods course: Bridging the gap between research and practice: Colin Stuart and Elizabeth Whitmore

Chapter 12: Research For And As Practice: Educating Practitioners In Inquiry Skills For Changing Cultural Contexts: Fran Crawford

PART IV: EDUCATION

Chapter 13: Ethnographers of their own Affairs: Gerhard Reimann

Chapter 14: Telling Stories ... And The Pursuit Of Critical Reflection: Jennifer Lehmann

Chapter 15: Starting As We Mean To Go On - Introducing Beginning Social Work Students to Reflective Practice: Bairbre Redmond

Chapter 16: Critical Reflection - Possibilities for Developing Effectiveness in Conditions of Uncertainty: Fiona Gardner, Jan Fook and Susan White

References

Author Index

Subject Index

Additional information

GOR004635024
9780335218783
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Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care by Sue White
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Open University Press
20060816
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