Critical Practice Model For Physiotherapy - Developing Practice through Critical Transformative Dialogues

Clinical practice operates in increasingly more complex,diverse and uncertain environments. Patients are better informed,technology is advancing and health care practice is constantlychanging. In the business of clinical reality clinicians normallydo not question their professional practice because they take itfor granted and have been socialised into accepting currentprofessional practices. Franziska Trede argues that professionalpractice is enhanced through critical transformative dialogues(CTDs). CTD are based on critical social science philosophy with anemphasis on scepticism and critique of current knowledge andpractices, critical self-reflection, and developing professionalpractice through critical dialogues. There are three key processesof CTD: Knowing self, engaging with others, and emancipatingpractice from unreflected, taken-for-granted assumptions. Findingsfrom her research include five relevant dimensions of criticalsocial science for health care practice, five different modes ofengaging with CTD, and twelve propositions for a critical practicemodel. This book is of great interest to clinicians, clinicaleducators and lecturers in health care.