Critical Issues in Clinical Practice

Klappentext With a focus on clinical psychology, this book explores the challenges and confusions generated by postmodernism. Identifying contemporary concerns in clinical practice and seeking responses to current questions, the book asks: Are professionals really self-serving individuals pretending to be altruistic? Are ethics the guarantor of good practice in a post-scientific age? How can we recognize and train the ethical practitioner? What models of practice will be useful in the future?Critical Issues in Clinical Practice sets an agenda for all researchers in clinical practice seeking key topics and themes, an agenda that promises clarity to practitioners bludgeoned by the rapid turnover of ideas that is postmodern culture. Zusammenfassung This work explores the confusions which postmodernism generates for clinical psychology! identifies contemporary concerns in clinical practice! and seeks to answer questions pertaining to future models of practice and the contribution of pluralist services to societal improvement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Clinical Psychology and Its Critics Thinking Straight Postmodern Culture and Its Influence Past Events in Present Time Culture, Community and Psychology Meaning, Discursive Psychology and Narrative Research as Practice Ethics Running against the Walls of Our Cage? To Boldly Go

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Clegg, Jennifer Anne Clegg
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.10.1998
• EAN: 9780803975552
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7555-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; MEDICAL / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, Clinical psychology, Mental health services