Developing Reflective Practice

An essential toolkit that helps students, qualified nurses and other healthcare professionals to become confident reflective practitioners.

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction
Part 1: Introducing reflective practice

1. Reflecting on reflection: Theories and perspectives on Reflective Practice
2. How to reflect: The reflective practitioner's toolkit

Part 2: Reflecting on the work in frontline services

3. Working with people's stories: The role of narrative in frontline practice
4. Shaping people's lives part one: Attachment and family Influences
5. Shaping people's lives part two: Cross-generational influences and migration
Extended example 1: Narrative and forces shaping people's lives
6. Inside and outside working relationships: Boundaries in frontline practice
7. Getting to the heart of the matter: Helping people change
8. Reflecting on what is really important: Ethics and values in frontline practice
Extended example 2: Working with boundaries and change

Part 3: Reflecting on emotion in frontline services

9. Absorbing distress: Emotional Containment in frontline practice
10. When strong feelings matter: Transference and countertransference in frontline practice
Extended example 3: Working with containment and transference

Part 4: Reflecting on staff support in frontline services

11. All for one and one for all: Building supportive teams
12. Making sense of tangles, twists, and turns: Effective case supervision in frontline practice
13. When the going gets tough: Stress and burnout in frontline services
Extended example 4: Stress and team support

Reflecting in practice: a final word

References
Index