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Critical thinking in health and social care / Stella Jones-Devitt, Liz Smith
- Author
- Jones-Devitt, Stella
- Additional Titles
- Critical thinking in health & social care
- Published
- Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2007.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 184 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Smith, Liz, 1957-
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Sect. 1 Theoretical Overview -- 1. Thinking critically about critical thinking / Stella Jones-Devitt / Liz Smith -- 2. authenticity of knowledge / Stella Jones-Devitt / Liz Smith -- 3. Assumptions / Stella Jones-Devitt / Liz Smith -- 4. nature of evidence / Peter Draper / Liz Smith -- Sect. 2 Key Theoretical Tools of Critical Thinking -- 5. Political ideologies / Stella Jones-Devitt / Liz Smith -- 6. Moral reasoning / Liz Smith / Stella Jones-Devitt -- 7. Feminism and post-feminism / Stella Jones-Devitt / Julie Dickinson -- 8. Critical realism / Stella Jones-Devitt / Liz Smith -- 9. Chaos and complexity theories / Liz Smith / Stella Jones-Devitt -- 10. Postmodernism and post-structuralism / Peter Draper / Stella Jones-Devitt -- Sect. 3 Application to Health and Social Care Practice -- 11. Case studies in health and social care / Liz Smith / Julie Dickinson.
- Summary
- 'Critical Thinking in Health and Social Care' is designed to equip practitioners with the knowledge and tools they need to critically examine practice in their own workplace.
- Subject(s)
- Medical care—Great Britain—Evaluation
- Social service—Great Britain—Evaluation
- Critical thinking
- Medical care—Quality control
- Problem solving
- Social service
- Decision making
- Judgment
- Quality Assurance, Health Care
- Problem Solving
- Quality of Health Care
- Social Work
- Decision Making
- Soins médicaux—Grande-Bretagne—Évaluation
- Service social—Grande-Bretagne—Évaluation
- Pensée critique
- Soins médicaux—Qualité—Contrôle
- Résolution de problème
- Service social
- Prise de décision
- Jugement
- HEALTH & FITNESS—Health Care Issues
- MEDICAL—Public Health
- MEDICAL—Health Policy
- HEALTH & FITNESS—Diseases—General
- MEDICAL—Diseases
- MEDICAL—Health Care Delivery
- Medical care—Evaluation
- Social service—Evaluation
- United Kingdom
- Great Britain
- ISBN
- 9781849202503 (electronic bk.)
1849202508 (electronic bk.)
9781446213438 (ebook)
1446213439 (ebook)
9786612021015
6612021012
9781412920698 (hardcover)
9781412920704 (pbk.)
1412920698 (Cloth)
1412920701 (Paper) - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-182) and index.
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