Clinical Reasoning in Occupational Therapy - 7 views

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  #1 smludwig on 14 Aug 15

   

  Mattingly, C. (1991). What is Clinical Reasoning? American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 979-986.
  
  This article gives an interesting viewpoint regarding the use of clinical reasoning to defend treatment in occupational therapy. The author gives a nontraditional definition of clinical reasoning as being tacit, imagistic, and deeply phenomenological method of thinking. He argues that clinical reasoning is "more than the ability to offer explicit reasons that justify clinical decisions because it is also based on tacit understanding and habitual knowledge gained through experience," on top of what is known from the application of theory. I thought his viewpoint on the development and use clinical reasoning skills was very interesting.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Mattingly, C. (1991). What is Clinical Reasoning? American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 979-986. <br /> <br /> This article gives an interesting viewpoint regarding the use of clinical reasoning to defend treatment in occupational therapy. The author gives a nontraditional definition of clinical reasoning as being tacit, imagistic, and deeply phenomenological method of thinking. He argues that clinical reasoning is "more than the ability to offer explicit reasons that justify clinical decisions because it is also based on tacit understanding and habitual knowledge gained through experience," on top of what is known from the application of theory. I thought his viewpoint on the development and use clinical reasoning skills was very interesting.</div>

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