Critical thinking for addiction professionals [[electronic resource] /] / Michael J. Taleff

• Autore: Taleff Michael J
• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Springer Pub. Co., c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (175 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89
• Soggetto topico: Clinical psychology - Decision making; Counseling - Decision making; Decision making
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical thinking for addiction professionals
• ISBN: 1-280-74461-8; 9786610744619; 0-8261-1823-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451810703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II