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Critical thinking for addiction professionals / Michael J. Taleff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taleff, Michael J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinical psychology--Decision making.
- Clinical psychology.
- Counseling--Decision making.
- Counseling.
- Decision making.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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?.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-74461-8
- 9786610744619
- 0-8261-1823-2
- OCLC:
- 437178343
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