Reflection in Action: Developing Reflective Practice in Health and Social Services

Newly available in paperback, this original and informative volume outlines a new, well-designed reflective teaching and learning model that can be used with single- or multi-disciplinary groups of students and professionals. It offers an overview of the origins of the different theories of reflection and explains how different levels of reflection can be understood and incorporated into everyday teaching and training. Outlining specific teaching and learning techniques to be used in training situations, it also includes examples of how these techniques have been successfully used with groups of professionals from health and social care areas. This edition features a substantive new preface, bringing the book up to date with recent developments in the field. It is a well-researched guide to both the theory and the practice of reflection, and it also offers those who teach and train professionals a clearly delineated reflective model for use in the classroom or professional training environment.

Bairbre Redmond is Vice Principal for Teaching and Learning in the College of Human Sciences at University College Dublin, Ireland. She was one of the inaugural winners of the President's Teaching Award at UCD and her work on the development and evaluation of innovative reflective teaching approaches has received international recognition. She is currently carrying out longitudinal research on the changing professional experiences of social workers at the beginning of their professional practice.