Includes bibliographical references and index

Section 1. Understanding clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning: challenges of interpretation and practice in the 21st century -- Re-interpreting clinical reasoning: a model of encultured decision making practice capabilities -- Multiple spaces of choice, engagement and influence in clinical decision making -- Clinical reasoning and models of practice -- The development of clinical reasoning expertise -- Expertise and clinical reasoning -- Section 2. The changing context of clinical reasoning and practice. The context of clinical reasoning across the health professions in the 21st century -- Changing demographic and cultural dimensions of populations: Implications for healthcare and decision making -- Clinical thinking, client expectations and patient-centred care -- Next generation clinical practice guidelines -- Action and narrative: Two dynamics of clinical reasoning -- The language of clinical reasoning -- Evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning: In tension, tandem or two sides of the same coin? -- Methods in the study of clinical reasoning -- Section 3. Collaborative and transdisciplinary reasoning. Collaborative decision making in liquid times -- Ethical reasoning -- Shared decision making in practice -- Using decision aids to involve clients in clinical decision making -- Clinical decision making, social justice and client empowerment -- Clinical decision making across orthodox and complementary medicine fields -- Section 4. Clinical reasoning and the professions. Clinical reasoning in medicine -- Clinical reasoning in nursing -- Clinical reasoning in physiotherapy -- Clinical reasoning in dentistry -- Clinical reasoning in occupational therapy -- Clinical decision making in emergency medicine -- Clinical decision making in paramedicine -- Clinical decision making in optometry -- Clinical reasoning in dietetics -- Clinical reasoning in pharmacy -- Section 5. Teaching clinical reasoning. Pedagogies for teaching and learning clinical reasoning -- Teaching clinical reasoning in medical education courses -- Teaching clinical reasoning in nursing education -- Speech-language pathology students: Learning clinical reasoning -- Clinical reasoning and biomedical knowledge: Implications for teaching -- Cultivating a thinking surgeon, using a Clinical Thinking Pathway as a learning and assessment process: ten years on -- Interprofessional programs to develop clinical reasoning -- Assessing clinical reasoning -- Section 6. Learning clinical reasoning. Learning to communicate clinical reasoning -- Developing clinical reasoning capability -- Remediating learning and performance of clinical reasoning in medicine -- Learning about factors influencing clinical decision making -- Learning reasoning using simulation -- Learning to use evidence to support decision making -- Learning to research clinical reasoning -- Learning clinical reasoning across cultural contexts -- Peer learning to develop clinical reasoning abilities

"Clinical reasoning lies at the core of health care practice and education. Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions, therefore, occupies a central place in the education of health professionals, the enhancement of professional decision making of individuals and groups of practitioners with their clients, and research into optimal practice reasoning."--Publisher's description