STRENGTHEN YOUR ADVOCACY WITH CRITICAL THINKING

Presented by Professor Michael Taleff

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Bad thinking leads to bad clinical decision-making - and bad decisions hurt clients as well as professionals. One powerful solution is to use the principles of critical thinking - for details Download Addiction Today 113-Critical thinking

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

At the end of this session, delegates will be able to:

• Recognise the need for critical thinking in the addiction field

• Comprehend the fundamentals of critical thinking, and how it can be applied to the addiction field

• Understand what drives poor thinking, and make plans to correct those habits

• Identify supervisory fallacies

• Recognise a variety of other fallacies and how they detract from solid thinking needed so badly needed in the addiction field

• Record case histories where decisions based on 'authority' rather than reason went unquestioned, with problematic results

• Strengthen your own advocacy.