The need for reflective practice as an underpinning of high-quality practice across the human services, management and education is now well established. Increasingly, the need for this to be critically reflective practice is being recognized.
This important text is a revised and updated edition of a very well-received and much-appreciated book by two highly respected authors with a strong track record in explaining complex ideas clearly and accessibly without oversimplifying them.
Divided into two parts, the book focuses first on theoretical issues to help develop a sound foundation of understanding of critically reflective practice and then on practical guidance on how to make this type of practice a reality.
This is an ideal text for students, practitioners and managers alike.
This important textbook is a revised and updated edition of a very well-received and much-appreciated insightful guide to reflective practice designed for students, practitioners and managers of social work, health care and related fields. Its clear and careful integration of both the 'thinking and doing' elements of the often challenging task of practising reflectively makes this book an ideal text at all levels of study and practice. Divided into two parts, the book focuses first on theoretical issues to help develop a sound foundation of understanding of critically reflective practice and then on practical guidance on how to make this type of practice a reality.
PRIMARY: Undergraduate and postgraduate students on professional courses such as social work, nursing, health, counselling, youth and community work, childhood studies, teaching/education, and business studies taking modules on Reflection, Critical Reflection, Practising Reflectively, Professional Development, Practice Development or Personal Development.
Examples of target modules include:
Open University, Practice Placement and Preparation for Practice
Lancaster University, Practice Placement and Preparation for Practice
Manchester Metropolitan University, Social Work Theory
Northumbria University, Reflective Practice
Middlesex University, Work-based Learning
Market sizes:
- Nursing – 27,000 students accepted onto degree courses in 2016
- Social Work - 13,000 students accepted onto courses in 2016
SECONDARY: Practitioners in the above fields undertaking CPD
Students taking modules on 'Developing Reflective Practice' and 'Critical Reflection in Practice' on undergraduate degrees in Social Work, Nursing, Midwifery, and courses related to the caring professions such as Youth and Community Work.
There are 88,000 practicing social workers registered in England.
There are 314,966 qualified nursing staff and health visitors, 25,418 midwives, 23,066 GP practice nurses in the UK.
Sue Thompson
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