Description
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates novel ways of working across a wide variety of clinical areas, including children, people with learning difficulties and adults with acquired communication disabilities. It explores the paradigm shifts beyond technical rational approaches to professional artistry underpinned by reflective practice and user involvement. It discusses values, understanding expectations of clients, the commonalities of therapy, the Care Aims model and the biopsychosocial model in dysphasia management.
The contributors look at the three elements of competence, knowledge, skills and attitudes and attributes, to demonstrate the relationship between observable skills and the hidden influential aspects of competence that play a vital role in making a practitioner professionally competent. By bringing together constructs and challenges from differing areas of practice, the book will stimulate readers to think about their work in new ways by learning from experts outside their own scope of practice.
Table of ContentsContributors vii
Preface viii
Chapter l The geography of professional practice: swamps and icebergs 1
Anna van der Gaag and Carolyn Anderson
Chapter 2 Values in professional practice 10
Anna van der Gaag and Chris Mowles
Chapter 3 Understanding expectations 27
Margaret Glogowska
Chapter 4 The Care Aims model 43
Kate Malcomes
Chapter 5 Implementation of the Care Aims model: challenges and opportunities 72
Pauline Beirne
Chapter 6 Learning to be common in therapy 86
Karen Bunning
Chapter 7 Journeys with aphasia: personal reflections 111
Kate Swinburn
Chapter 8 Dysphagia: combining conflicting models? 131
Karen Krawcazyk
Chapter 9 Reflection in practice 155
Carolyn Anderson
Index 175
