Critical thinking for addiction professionals
By: Michael J. Taleff.
Publisher: Springer Pub. Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Clinical psychology -- Decision making.; Counseling -- Decision making.; Decision making.; Counseling -- methods.; Behavior, Addictive.; Judgment.; Perception.; Substance-Related Disorders -- therapy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The world of critical thinking; title: Critical thinking: an overview of key elements; title: Poor thinking: from the individual to the field; title: Time for a little test; title: Critical thinking: the basics; title: What drives bad thinking?; title: A crash course in fallacies; title: Fallacies that appeal to authority and irrelevant fallacies; title: Causal fallacies and weak inductions; title: Fallacies that presume a conclusion before it is proven and classification fallacies; title: Fallacies caused by perception problems and fallacies of manner and style; title: The ethics of using critical thinking; title: What price critical thinking?.