Critical thinking in clinical practice : improving the quality of judgments and decisions
"Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice, Second Edition is designed to enhance readers' skills in making well-informed, ethical decisions. Making such decisions is no easy task. Decisions are made in uncertain, changing environments with time pressures. Interested parties, such as the pharmaceutical industry, spend millions of dollars to influence decisions made. Drawing on a wide range of related literature, this book describes common pitfalls in clinical reasoning as well as strategies for avoiding them - sometimes called mind-tools. Mental health and allied professionals will come away from this text with knowledge of how classification decisions, a focus on pathology, and reliance on popularity can cause errors. Hazards involved in data collection and team decision making such as groupthink are discussed." "An interactive, dynamic book filled with insightful examples, useful lists and guidelines, and exercises geared to encourage critical thinking, Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice, Second Edition provides an essential resource for helping professionals and students."--Jacket
xv, 631 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780471471189, 0471471186
60603221
The need for critical thinking in clinical practice
Sources of influence on decisions that clinicians make
Reasons and reasoning: the heart of making decisions
Different views of knowledge and how to get it: exploring your personal epistemology
The influence of language and persuasion strategies
Formal and informal fallacies: mistakes in thinking and how to avoid them
Classification, pseudoauthority, and focusing on pathology
Content and procedural knowledge
Taking advantage of research on judgment, problem solving, and decision making
Evidence-based practice: a philosophy and process for thinking ethically and critically about decisions
Posing questions and searching for answers
Critical appraisal of practice-related research: the need for skepticism
Making decisions about data collection
Discovering causes of clients' problems: common biases
Predictions about clients and treatment effectiveness: improving the odds
Enhancing the quality of case conferences, team meetings, and organizational culture
Overcoming personal obstacles to critical thinking
Maintaining critical thinking skills
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