Compare Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals by Eileen Gambrill, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Critical thinking values, skills, and knowledge are integral to evidence-based practice in the helping professions. On a daily basis, practitioners must be able and willing to think critically about decisions that affect clients' lives, while detecting and avoiding misleading framing ofproblems that may harm clients but contribute to the profit of involved industries (e. g. ignoring environmental sources of distress and focusing on characteristics of clients). Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals, Fourth Edition is designed to engage readers as active participants in 37exercises designed to hone critical thinking skills and offer practice in critically appraising different kinds of research, carrying out the steps in the process of evidence-based practice, reviewing the extent to which clients are involved as informed participants, and reviewing excuses used foroffering poor services. For students in social work, nursing, counseling, and psychology, this new edition offers entertaining and thought-provoking ways to sharpen decision making skills. | Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals by Eileen Gambrill, Paperback | Indigo Chapters