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Developing the reflective healthcare team / Tony Ghaye.

By: Ghaye, Tony.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Blackwell Science, 2003Description: 224 p.ISBN: 1405105917; 9781405105910.Subject(s): Health care teams | Teams in the workplace | Reflection (Philosophy) | Health and Wellbeing | Medical administration & management | NursingDDC classification: 362.1068 GHA Summary: Teamwork is fundamental to health care. This book explores the use of reflective practice as a practical tool to assist team working, team building, and group development in order to help develop a fully effective health care team.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Team working and learning through reflection are both fundamental to quality healthcare. This book is the first to explore the use of the practices of reflection to develop health care teams that can deliver sustainable, high-quality personalised care.



Developing the Reflective Healthcare Team is structured in three parts which are about new views of reflective practice, improving team working, and the use of the TA2LK facilitative reflective process to develop high performing teams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Teamwork is fundamental to health care. This book explores the use of reflective practice as a practical tool to assist team working, team building, and group development in order to help develop a fully effective health care team.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Getting into reflective mode: Moving from myths, legends and 'the ruined world'
  • What is a 'team': Conceptions, stereotypes, tribes and territories
  • Working and Learning together: the tyrannies of niceness and participation
  • the centrality of the reflective conversation: talking to learn not learning to talk
  • Towards a position of safe uncertainty: what knowledge, whose knowledge and what knowledge is worth knowing?
  • Being in a reflective team: experiencing the growing edges
  • the qualities of the reflective team: would you know one if you were in one?
  • Reflection: How far has the book encouraged some 'reversals' in thinking and action?

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Tony Ghaye is a key player in reflective practice. He is editor of the Reflective practice journal for Carfax Publishing /Taylor and Francis and director of the newly founded Institute of Reflective Practice in Gloucestershire. He has consultancy links in Hong Kong and knows with David Kember et al.