Eileen Gambrill is the Hutto Patterson Professor of Child and Family Studies at the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches both research and practice. Her research and writing cover professional decision making, evidence-informed practice, the role of critical thinking, propaganda in the helping professions and its harmful effects, and the ethics of helping. She presents nationally and internationally on the topics of critical thinking, evidence-informed practice, and the ethics of helping.
...she has produced an ambitious and impressively comprehensive book that belongs in the library of every clinician and in the backpack of every graduate student. ( PsycCRITIQUES ) The book does work best as a reference: each topic is a separate research area in its own right ( Evidence Based Medicine ) Anyone seeking a succinct, well-written, easy-to-read survey of faculty reasoning and how to cure it should look no further. Gambrill's book should be the required text for any course in critical thinking for psychotherapists, a course urgently needed by every psychiatric, clinical psychology, and social work training program in existence today. ( Skeptical Inquirer ) Clinical training programs cannot discount the importance of critical thinking or the knowledge and skills that it requires. It is hard to justify the absence of a course focusing on the wide-ranging material woven together in Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice. By supplying a model textbook for such a course, Gambrill has made a valuable contribution. ( Contemporary Psychology ) [ Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice ] is essential reading for all who aspire to improve the quality of clinical practice. In some respects, this book might be called the thinking social worker's guide to improved practice. The very questions that are raised by Gambrill are as important as the answers that she proposes. ( Research in Social Work Practice ) For the research instructor, this volume presents a potential bridge for the gap between research and practice. It would be an ideal text for a course that would focus on how critical thinking that employs research concepts and methods can improve clinical decision making. In addition, readers are provided with a variety of approaches to monitor and improve their decision making skills. ( Social Work in Health Care )