Types of Professional Reasoning

applied, logical
theory based decision making
statistical evidence
what typically happens with this diagnosis? impairments?
impersonal?

what are the 7 types of reasoning

analyzing cause of the condition
explaining why client is experiencing problems
what factors contribute to this problem?
science and client based
personal and impersonal

- therapist considers interventions based on routine for condition or culture of the setting
- determining what protocols can be used in these situations

- making sense of particular circumstances
- imagining the effects of illness, disability, occupational performance
- collaborating to create a story involving client and family within intervention
- personal (past, present, future)

- practical: payments, equipment, skills
- focused on the "stuff" and therapist's internal sense of what they have the energy and time to complete
- all of the logistics

- analyzing a problem
- determing next septs and what is right
- are the beneftis worth the cost
- prioritizing caseloads

buidling therapeutic rapport
collaboration
empathetic comments, how can you relate?

- blending all forms of reasoning to adapt to changing conditions
- comes with experience

use of knowledge gained from reflection, experience, and peer reviewed literature

professional reasoning is depedent on
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- assessing thinking, emotions, thinking process
- attentive, curious, self aware

beliefs/assumptions might be wrong

- development is influenced by many factors
- experts do not outperform novices with "messy" problems
- deeper and complex thinking gained from evidence based practice and performance