Reflective Practice in Clinical Ethics

Reflective Practice in Clinical Ethics: A Workbook for Professional Development opens the way for critical self-reflection, encouraging readers to engage with their own fragments of experience as a means of developing their professional practice. Reflective Practice in Clinical Ethics: A Workbook for Professional Development opens the way for critical self-reflection, encouraging readers to engage with their own fragments of experience as a means of developing their professional practice. Grounded in a tradition of reflection and dialogue as key elements of clinical ethics work, readers are invited to critically engage with the complex moral experiences that emerge in clinical ethics and to consider the unavoidable and sometimes challenging connections between personal and professional experiences. Each chapter contains original stories and vignettes of clinical moments, framed between brief philosophical overviews. Reflective questions offer readers an opportunity to identify and consider the commitments, biases, and questions about practice that are inherent in clinical ethics work. Beyond theories and procedural approaches to clinical ethics training and practice, this workbook offers clinicians and educators in clinical ethics an alternative pedagogical approach that engages personal experiences and careful reflections to introduce students and trainees to complex clinical encounters and to develop and improve professional practice.