Orientation to Inquiry in a Reflective Professional Psychology

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State University of New York Press, Aug 16, 1994 - Psychology - 307 pages
This book approaches professional inquiry in psychology from a perspective that integrates research and practice and prepares students for the diversity of methods employed in the field. It examines a broad range of models and methods of inquiry in both research and practice and provides a framework for linking issues of knowledge to the special context of professional psychology.

Guided by a vision of psychology as a self-critical discipline and a reflective profession, Hoshmand provides a pluralistic perspective on inquiry, including alternative paradigms, for the professional education of clinical, counseling, consulting, and other practicing psychologists as reflective scientist-practitioners. She gives special attention to the cognitive development and knowledge processes of the professional and offers suggestions for professional training and mechanisms of teaching and learning.
 

Contents

Suggested Additional Learning
17
Suggested Additional Learning
40
Cultural and Historical Embeddedness of Psychological Science
48
Summarizing the Implications for Professional Inquiry
54
Paradigms of Research
78
Experimental Methodology
85
Critical Theory as a Paradigmatic View
92
Testing and Assessment
119
The Centrality of Meaning and Value
125
The Applied Epistemology of the ScientistPractitioner
133
Suggested Additional Learning
153
Suggested Additional Learning
173
Development of the Reflective ScientistPractitioner
179
Suggested Additional Learning
195
Index
301
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Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand is Professor of Counseling at the California State University, Fullerton.

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