How to Run Reflective Practice Groups: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals

by Arabella Kurtz

In How to Run Reflective Practice Groups: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals, Arabella Kurtz explores the use of reflective practice in the modern healthcare context.

Responding to the rapidly increasing demand for reflective practice groups in healthcare and drawing on her extensive experience as a facilitator and trainer, Kurtz presents a fully developed, eight-stage model: The Intersubjective Model of Reflective Practice Groups. The book offers a guide to the organisation, structure and delivery of group sessions, with useful suggestions for overcoming commonly-encountered problems and promoting empathic relationships with clients and colleagues.

Clearly and accessibly written, using full situational examples for each stage of the presented model, How to Run Reflective Practice Groups offers a comprehensive guide to facilitating reflective practice in healthcare.

Genres: Psychology

156 pages, Paperback

Published December 22, 2019

Reviews

[Sam Rankin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really struggled to find academic papers describing the running of reflective practice groups in community mental health teams. Most of the literature i had come across described setting up of these groups in inpatient settings, which has a different set of challenges from those I was facing setting up a group for my team.

This book very helpfully provides a model for reflective practice groups to use, and takes you through each of the stages of this model. She talks about the decisions, challenges and common pitfalls of each stage. I found this very helpful in considering how to approach and to reflect on setting up a new group.

[Daisy Evans · Rating 5 out of 5]

All you could ever need to know about an important new direction.
It makes you reflect on your own work (and life) with structure, purpose and compassion.
Highly recommend.