Becoming a reflective practitioner

✍ Scribed by Christopher Johns; Sally Burnie

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

'Christopher Johns is an internationally recognised pioneer of reflective practice in nursing and health care’ (Nursing Standard)

Becoming a Reflective Practitioner provides a unique insight into reflective practice, exploring the value of using models of reflection, with particular reference to Christopher Johns' own model for structured reflection. Now in its fourth edition, this book has been completely revised and updated to include up-to-date literature and reflective extracts.

Contemporary in approach, this definitive text contains a variety of rich and insightful reflective extracts that support the main issues being raised in each chapter, and challenges practitioners and students to question their own practice. Now with further scenarios and case studies included throughout, these extracts provide the reader with access to the experience of reflective representation helping to explicate the way in which reflective practice can inform the wider notion of professional practice. The fourth edition of Becoming a Reflective Practitioner should be essential reading to everybody using reflection in everyday clinical practice.

 

Special Features

• New, fully updated edition of a seminal text in the field
• Includes an additional chapter looking at existing studies on reflective practice
• Scenarios and case studies provided throughout
• A practical guide to using reflection in everyday clinical practice

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Exploring reflection --
Writing self : the 1st dialogical movement --
Surfing the reflective spiral : the 2nd dialogical movement --
Framing insights --
The dance with Sophia : the 3rd dialogical movement --
Guiding reflection : the 4th dialogical movement --
Weaving narrative and performance : the 5th & 6th dialogical movements --
The reflective curriculum --
Reflections on touch and the environment --
Reflections on caring --
Life begins at 40 --
Balancing the wind or a lot of hot air --
A reflective model of clinical practice --
Reflective leadership --
Teetering on the edge of chaos --
Ensuring quality (clinical standards and clinical audit) --
Clinical supervision --
Tales of clinical supervision --
Therapeutic journaling with patients --
The bully and the sheep : storyboard --
Reflective prose poems --
Through a glass darkly : the performance turn.
Abstract:

Becoming a Reflective Practitioner provides a unique insight into reflective practice, exploring the value of using models of reflection with particular reference to Christopher Johns' own model for structured reflection. Read more...