Title Critical thinking for social workers : exercises for the helping professions / Leonard Gibbs, Eileen Gambrill

Edition [Revised edition] Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : Pine Forge Press, [1999] ©1999

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Description xxiv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Part One: Critical Thinking: What It Is And Why It Is Important -- Introduction -- The Role of Critical Thinking in the Helping Professions -- Exercise 1 Making Decisions about Intervention -- Exercise 2 Reviewing Your Beliefs about Knowledge -- Part Two: Recognizing Propaganda In Human Services Advertising -- Exercise 3 Evaluating Human Service Advertisements -- Exercise 4 Watching Doctor Fox -- Exercise 5 Does Scaring Youth Help Them 'Go Straight'? -- Applying Principles of Reasoning, Inference, Decision Making and Evaluation -- Part Three: Fallacies And Pitfalls In Professional Decision Making: What They Are And How To Avoid Them -- Exercise 6 Using the Professional Thinking Form -- Exercise 7 Reasoning-in-Practice Game A -- Common Practice Fallacies -- Exercise 8 Reasoning-in-Practice Game B -- Group and Interpersonal Dynamics -- Exercise 9 Reasoning-in-Practice Game C -- Cognitive Biases in Practice -- Exercise 10 Preparing a Fallacies Film Festival -- Exercise 11 Fallacy-Spotting in Professional Contexts -- Part Four: Thinking Critically About Specific Assessment And Intervention Decisions -- Exercise 12 Evaluating Study Quality and Treatment Effect -- Exercise 13 Describing Problems -- A Key Part of Assessment -- Exercise 14 Making Predictions -- Exercise 15 Critical Thinking as a Guide to Making Ethical Decisions -- Exercise 16 Error as Process -- Templating, Justification and Ratcheting -- Exercise 17 Evaluating Diagnostic Tests -- Exercise 18 Reviewing Intervention Plans -- Exercise 19 Analyzing Arguments -- Exercise 20 Thinking Critically about Case Records -- Part Five: Improving Educational And Practice Environments -- Exercise 21 Encouraging a Culture of Thoughtfulness -- Exercise 22 Evaluating the Teaching of Critical-Thinking Skills -- Exercise 23 Problem-Based Learning -- Exercise 24 Evidence-Based Practice Notes Original edition entitled: Critical thinking for social workers : a workbook. 1996 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index Subject Critical thinking -- Problems, exercises, etc. Social service -- Problems, exercises, etc. Social work education -- Problems, exercises, etc. Genre/Form Problems and exercises. Author Gambrill, Eileen D., 1934- LC no. 99172627 ISBN 0761986081

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