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Critical Thinking and Professional Judgement in Social Work, Lynne Rutter and Keith Brown
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Lee Quinney, Critical Thinking and Professional Judgement in Social Work, Lynne Rutter and Keith Brown, The British Journal of Social Work , Volume 48, Issue 4, June 2018, Pages 1128–1131, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcx056
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As a book that will probably be attractive to both final-year and PQ students considering ways of improving and invigorating their practice, this text provides an effective introduction to critical thinking and judgement because it offers a balanced proportionate oversight of literature and key issues: it does what it says it does—I love that! It refers to a raft of well-known age-old writers on critical reflection (e.g. Brookfield, 1987; Schὂn, 1997) and more contemporary ones referring to aspects of risk assessment, judgement and decision making (e.g. Taylor, 2013), capturing the need for much more focused post-qualifying training in the wake of the Laming Report (2009) and move towards more specific education and training for newly qualified social workers and then those in their Assessed First Year in Practice (ASYE). Unfortunately, ASYE is not discussed because the book appears more focused on cognate understanding of critical thinking and judgement in an introductory manner rather than policy and practice capabilities or knowledge and skills statements. This means potentially good chapters analysing critical thinking and reflection at the ASYE stage of a career are lost in this edition. For example, the Professional Capabilities Framework for ASYE refers to showing creativity in tackling and solving problems, and using critically reflective techniques to evaluate information and test hypothesis (see BASW, 2017).
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