Critical Thinking and the Process of Evidence-Based Practice - Softcover

Gambrill, Eileen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019046335X ISBN 13: 9780190463359

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In Critical Thinking and the Process of Evidence-Based Practice, Eileen Gambrill provides a detailed description of the process of evidence-based practice (EBP), designed to help individual practitioners and their clients make informed decisions. This book clearly distinguishes EBP from the promotion of EBPs, and discusses the origins of the process as well as related controversies and implementation obstacles. Ethical obligations to involve clients as informed participants are emphasized including attention to the close connection between evidentiary and ethical issues. The text features chapters covering clinical expertise, argumentation, avoidance of biases and fallacies, and common organizational and personal obstacles in optimizing quality of services. It serves as a valuable resource to professionals and students in the helping professions.

About this title

About the Author

Eileen Gambrill, PhD, is Professor of the Graduate School in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley.

Review

"Written by a master of the craft, Critical Thinking and the Process of Evidence-Based Practice provides an excellent overview and in-depth analysis of these topics. All practitioners in the health and human services will benefit from reading this impressive new book! Eileen Gambrill does an admirable job of distinguishing the original process model of real evidence-based practice from the far less sophisticated model of simply choosing interventions based on research findings, and she is naturally critical of labeling certain treatment as 'evidence-based' when the actual research literature fails to justify such a claim."

Bruce A. Thyer, PhD, LCSW, BCBA-D, Distinguished Research Professor, College of Social Work, Florida State University

"An invaluable and remarkably comprehensive resource for how to think clearly and critically about clinical practice. It's a gold mine of enormously useful information for practitioners, researchers, instructors, and students alike. If all clinicians-in-training were to follow Gambrill's wise counsel, our field's woes would be largely healed."

Scott O. Lilienfeld, PhD, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Department of Psychology, Emory University; Editor, Clinical Psychological Science

"Professor Eileen Gambrill has knocked it out of the park with her new book, Critical Thinking and the Process of Evidence-Based Practice. Always placing clients' interests front and center, Gambrill integrates, expands on, and elucidates her earlier work on critical thinking, problem-solving, interpersonal communication, decision-making, and evidence-based practice. Novice and seasoned helping professionals alike will benefit from Gambrill's clear and comprehensive explication of knowledge, skills, and values to enhance the effectiveness of professional practice."

Joanne Yaffe, PhD, ACSW, Professor of Social Work and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, College of Social Work, University of Utah

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 019046335X
• ISBN 13: 9780190463359
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352