Research Catalog

Title

Knowledge-in-practice in the caring professions : multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Heather D'Cruz, Struan Jacobs, Adrian Schoo.

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• D'Cruz, Heather.
• Jacobs, Struan.
• Schoo, Adrian M. M.

Description

x, 256 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Knowledge-in-Practice in the Caring Professions explores the nature and role of knowledge in the practical work of the caring professions. It focuses on knowledge of the practical over the theoretical, looking at the application of theory and the implementation of skill, judgment and discretion. Containing contributions from experts in a variety of fields, the research within this book offers a unique perspective on professional practice as multi-disciplinary, illustrating shared and overlapping understandings in knowledge-in-practice between the different professions as well as understandings that are distinctive to each discipline. It underlines that in order to effectively address the range of social, psychological and health problems facing contemporary societies, professionals need to engage in cooperative models of practice.

Subject

• Clinical competence
• Medical personnel > Psychology
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Clinical Competence
• Health Personnel > psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ideas of knowledge in practice / Struan Jacobs -- Information, knowledge, and wisdom in medical practice / P.B. Greenberg -- The practice of the psychiatrist / Alex Holmes -- Social work knowledge-in-practice / Heather D'Cruz -- Disability : a personal approach / Lisa Chaffey -- Knowledge in the making : an analytical psychology perspective / Joy Norton -- Knowledge to action in the practice of nursing / Alison Hutchinson, Tracey Bucknall -- The risky business of birth / Frances Sheean and Jennifer M. Cameron -- Skills for person-centred care : health professionals supporting chronic condition prevention and self-management / Sharon Lawn and Malcolm Battersby -- Knowledge and reasoning in practice : an example from physiotherapy and occupational therapy / Megan Smith ... [et al.] -- Using knowledge in the practice of dealing with addiction : an ideal worth aiming for / Peter Miller.

ISBN

• 9780754672821 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0754672824 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9780754672845 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0754672840 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780754690634 (ebk.)
• 0754690636 (ebk.)

LCCN

^^2009031151

OCLC

432240681

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library