Becoming a Reflective Practitioner

Reflective practice is internationally acknowledged as a significant approach to developing professional practice across health care professions. Becoming a Reflective Practitioner is a practical guide to using reflection both within curriculum and everyday clinical practice.

This completely revised fourth edition uses an even more reflective style, inviting and encouraging the reader to participate in a dialogue with the content. It develops Christopher Johns’ particular approach to reflective practice through the six dialogical movements and the development of narrative and performance.

The book features examples taken from everyday practice, which reveal reflection as something lived rather than just a theoretical concept and demonstrate the significant impact of reflection on realising desirable practice. The title also explores areas of key significance for professional health care curricula and development, including the real meaning of fundamental concepts such as "holistic" and "caring".

Key features

• A practical guide to applying the model of structured reflection
• Reflects significant developments in reflective and narrative theory
• Examines the nature of 'desirable' practice and factors that constrain its realisation in clinical practice
• Develops reflective practice within a curriculum
• Illuminates reflective practice writing through practitioner examples and case studies
• Engages practitioners in professional and critical dialogue, encouraging them to take responsibility for developing their clinical practice