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Practising Reflexivity In Health And Welfare TAYLOR

Practising Reflexivity In Health And Welfare By TAYLOR

Practising Reflexivity In Health And Welfare by TAYLOR


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Summary

Offers an approach to helping trainers and professionals to understand their practice. Drawing on a literature about argument and persuasion, this book provides a perspective on the concept of professional reflexivity. It explores how knowledge is used in professional practice, and also how it is made and generated in everyday encounters.

Practising Reflexivity In Health And Welfare Summary

Practising Reflexivity In Health And Welfare by TAYLOR

This promises to be a very important and influential book...The authors write well and deal with difficult and complex ideas in an accessible way and in a way that makes their implications for practice available to practitioners...There has been much discussion in recent years of the notion of the reflexive practitioner but as yet there are few texts available to help practitioners both understand the concept and integrate it directly into their practice. This is thus likely to be a core text for some years to come. - Professor Nigel Parton, University of Huddersfield

In recent years, professional practice in health and welfare has come under increasing scrutiny. The dominant response to this has been technical and procedural, as epitomized by the evidence based practice movement. This book offers an alternative, and equally rigorous approach to helping trainers and professionals to understand and analyse their practice. Drawing on a hitherto under-utilized literature about argument and persuasion, originating in qualitative research, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and discursive psychology, the book provides a new and original perspective on the concept of professional reflexivity. It explores, not only how knowledge is used in professional practice, but how it is made and generated in everyday encounters. It will be a valuable resource for practitioners in health and welfare as well as students in health and social science disciplines.

About TAYLOR

Carolyn Taylor lectures in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Manchester, having previously worked as a local authority social worker and training officer. She is involved in social work teaching at qualifying and post-qualifying levels, and with Sue White teaches an MA module on Critical Thinking and Professional Decision-Making for Health and Welfare Professionals from which the material for this book is derived. Her current research interests include applying discourse analytic techniques to professional education and training.

Susan White lectures in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Manchester, having previously worked as a local authority social worker and manager of a statutory children and families team in multi-disciplinary setting. She contributes to a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and teaches social workers at qualifying and post-qualifying level. She has completed a number of discourse analytic studies of health and welfare practice and has published in this area.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Developing a theoretical framework
Arguing and thinking: Implications for professional practice
Knowledge, truth and reflexive practice
Analysing talk and text: Building a conceptual framework
Conversational strategies: Lessons from everyday talk

Part II: Analysing talk and text in health and welfare
'The appropriate client': Service users constructing their case
Doing professional authority: Practitioners constructing accounts
Arguing the case: Professionals talking together
Analysing written text: Documents, records and reports
Making knowledge: The Louise Woodward case
Practising reflexivity: Beyond objectivity and subjectivity

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

GOR003788868
9780335205189
0335205186
Practising Reflexivity In Health And Welfare by TAYLOR
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Open University Press
20001216
256
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