文档介绍：Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals
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Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals
A Skills-Based Workbook
Third edition
EILEEN GAMBRILL
LEONARD GIBBS
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2009
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Preface
This workbook has a single purpose: those who do its exercises will reason
more effectively about life-affecting practice and policy decisions. Critical
thinking involves the critical appraisal of beliefs, arguments, and claims
to arrive at well-reasoned judgments. Critical thinking is essential to
helping people because it encourages practitioners to evaluate the sound-
ness of beliefs, arguments, and claims. What helpers believe infl uences
what they do. Thus, it is important to examine beliefs in relation to their
accuracy. Will sending a youthful offender to boot camp be more effec-
tive in decreasing future offenses than placing him on probation? Will a
prescribed d