Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

Foreword

vii

 

About the Authors

ix

 

Preface

xiii

 

Contributors

xvii

 

Reviewers

xxi

 

Acknowledgments

xxiii

UNIT I

THE NATURE OF CLINICAL AND PROFESSIONAL REASONING

1

Chapter 1

Professional Reasoning as the Basis of Practice   Barbara A. Boyt Schell and John W. Schell

3

Chapter 2

Therapists'Assumptions as a Dimension of Professional Reasoning   Barbara Hooper

13

Chapter 3

Information Processing Theory and Professional Reasoning   Martha Carr and Mary Shotwell

36

Chapter 4

Embodiment: Reasoning with the Whole Body   Barbara A. Boyt Schell and Dana Harris

69

UNIT II

ASPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL REASONING

89

Chapter 5

Scientific Reasoning   George S. Tomtin

91

Chapter 6

Narrative Reasoning   Toby Ballou Hamilton

125

Chapter 7

Pragmatic Reasoning   Barbara A. Boyt Schell

169

Chapter 8

Ethical Reasoning   Elizabeth M. Kanny and Deborah Yarett Slater

188

Chapter 9

Interactive and Conditional Reasoning: A Process of Synthesis   Barbara A. Boyt Schell

209

UNIT III

TEACHING PROFESSIONAL REASONING

227

Chapter 10

Epistemology: Knowing How You Know   John W Schell

229

Chapter 11

Teaching for Expert Practice   John W. Schell and Barbara A. Boyt Schell

258

Chapter 12

Communities of Practice: A Curricular Model that Promotes Professional Reasoning   John W. Schell and Barbara A. Boyt Schell

289

Chapter 13

Curricular Approaches to Professional Reasoning for Evidence-Based Practice   Wendy J. Coster

311

Chapter 14

Facilitating Clinical Reasoning in Fieldwork: The Relational Context of the Supervisor and Student   Ruth S. Farber and Kristie P. Koenig

335

UNIT IV

PROFESSIONAL REASONING RESEARCH

369

Chapter 15

Review of Methodologies for Researching Clinical Reasoning   Carolyn A. Unsworth

371

Chapter 16

Theory and Practice: New Directions for Research in Professional Reasoning   Barbara A. Boyt Schell, Carolyn A. Unsworth, and John W. Schell

401

 

Appendix

433

 

Glossary

443

 

Index

449