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Critical Thinking for Addiction Professionals.
Title:
Critical Thinking for Addiction Professionals.
Author:
Taleff, Michael J.
ISBN:
9780826118233
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (175 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: Introduction and Basics -- ONE: Introducing Critical Thinking Into Addiction Work -- TWO: Characteristics of the Critical Thinking Professional -- THREE: Poor Thinking in Addiction Work: From the Individual to the Field -- FOUR: Evaluating Your Critical Thinking Abilities -- FIVE: Learning the Basics of Critical Thinking -- SIX: What Drives Bad Thinking? -- PART II: Fallacies and Final Thoughts -- SEVEN: A Crash Course in Fallacies -- EIGHT: Fallacies That Appeal to Authority and Irrelevant Fallacies -- NINE: Causal Fallacies and Weak Inductions -- TEN: Fallacies That Presume a Conclusion Before It Is Proven and Classification Fallacies -- ELEVEN: Fallacies Caused by Perception Problems and Fallacies of Manner and Style -- TWELVE: The Ethics and Professional Consequences of Using Critical Thinking -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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