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Critical thinking for helping professionals : a skills-based workbook / Eileen Gambrill, Leonard Gibbs.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, © 2017Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xxiii, 422 pages ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780190297305
Subject(s):
Contents:
Critical thinking as a guide to decision making -- Recognising propaganda: the importance of questioning claims -- Increasing your skill in avoiding fallacies, biases, and pitfalls in decision making -- Evidence-informed decision making -- Critically appraising research -- Reviewing decisions -- Improving educational and practice environments.
Summary: This book continues to focus on engaging students as active participants in exercises designed to hone their critical thinking skills, drawing on related research and theory in a variety of related areas, including judgement and decision making.
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Previous edition: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Critical thinking as a guide to decision making -- Recognising propaganda: the importance of questioning claims -- Increasing your skill in avoiding fallacies, biases, and pitfalls in decision making -- Evidence-informed decision making -- Critically appraising research -- Reviewing decisions -- Improving educational and practice environments.

This book continues to focus on engaging students as active participants in exercises designed to hone their critical thinking skills, drawing on related research and theory in a variety of related areas, including judgement and decision making.

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