PCF 6: Critical Reflection & Analysis
CRITICAL REFLECTION AND ANALYSIS – Apply critical reflection and analysis to inform and provide a rationale for professional decision-making.
Social workers critically reflect on their practice, use analysis, apply professional judgement and reasoned discernment. We identify, evaluate and integrate multiple sources of knowledge and evidence. We continuously evaluate our impact and benefit to service users. We use supervision and other support to reflect on our work and sustain our practice and wellbeing. We apply our critical reflective skills to the context and conditions under which we practise. Our reflection enables us to challenge ourselves and others, and maintain our professional curiosity, creativity and self-awareness.
More tools coming soon…
PCF 6: Tool 2 – Cake model for reflecting on an intervention/incident
PCF 6: Tool 3 – Suggested Critical Incident prompts
PCF 6: Tool 5 – Knowns / Unknowns exercise