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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811086903321

Autore

Taleff Michael J

Titolo

Critical thinking for addiction professionals / / Michael J. Taleff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Springer Pub. Co., c2006

ISBN

1-280-74461-8

9786610744619

0-8261-1823-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Clinical psychology - Decision making

Counseling - Decision making

Decision making

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The world of critical thinking -- Critical thinking: an overview of key elements -- Poor thinking: from the individual to the field -- Time for a little test -- Critical thinking: the basics -- What drives bad thinking? -- A crash course in fallacies -- Fallacies that appeal to authority and irrelevant fallacies -- Causal fallacies and weak inductions -- Fallacies that presume a conclusion before it is proven and classification fallacies -- Fallacies caused by perception problems and fallacies of manner and style -- The ethics of using critical thinking -- What price critical thinking?.

Sommario/riassunto

The first guide to critical thinking for counselors in the addiction and mental health counseling fields. Takes a yardstick to the many fallacies that permeate the unscientific fields of addiction and mental health counseling and offers skills in critical analysis that will both improve individual treatment and the field at large.