Critical thinking for addiction professionals

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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Taleff, Michael J. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co c2006.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798080106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?.