Russell Delderfield

This bestselling book explains how reflective writing can help your own professional development in inviting critical examination of your practice, values, roles, and responsibilities. This is particularly suitable for anyone studying vocational degrees including: teacher training, nursing, counselling and the caring professions and business and management courses.

This bestselling book explains how reflective writing can help your own professional development in inviting critical examination of your practice, values, roles, and responsibilities. This is particularly suitable for anyone studying vocational degrees including: teacher training, nursing, counselling and the caring professions and business and management courses.

This book takes a novel approach to the study of male eating disorders – an area that is often dominated by clinical discourses. The study of eating disorders in men has purportedly suffered from a lack of dedicated attention to personal and socio-cultural aspects. Delderfield tackles this deficiency by spotlighting a set of personal accounts written by a group of men who have experiences of disordered eating. The text presents critical interpretations that aim to situate these experiences in the social and cultural context in which these disorders occur. This discursive work is underpinned by an eclectic scholarly engagement with social psychology and sociology literature around masculinities, embodiment and fatness, belonging, punishment, stigma, and control; leading to understandings about relationships with food, body and self. This is undertaken with a reflexive element, as the personal intersects with the professional. This text will appeal tostudents, scholars and clinicians in social sciences, humanities, and healthcare studies, including public health.

Reflecting thoughtfully on your work is vital for improving your own self-awareness, effectiveness and professional development. This newly updated fifth edition of Gillie Bolton’s bestselling book explores reflective writing as a creative and dynamic process for this critical enquiry. New to this edition: An expanded range of exercises and activitiesA new emphasis on using e-portfoliosFurther guidance on reflective writing assignmentsEnhanced discussion of reflection as a key employability skillAdditional online resources This popular book has been used worldwide in various disciplines including education, social work, business and management, medicine and healthcare and is essential reading for students and professionals seeking to enhance their reflective writing skills and to examine their own practice in greater critical depth.

Reflecting thoughtfully on your work is vital for improving your own self-awareness, effectiveness and professional development. This newly updated fifth edition of Gillie Bolton’s bestselling book explores reflective writing as a creative and dynamic process for this critical enquiry. New to this edition: An expanded range of exercises and activitiesA new emphasis on using e-portfoliosFurther guidance on reflective writing assignmentsEnhanced discussion of reflection as a key employability skillAdditional online resources This popular book has been used worldwide in various disciplines including education, social work, business and management, medicine and healthcare and is essential reading for students and professionals seeking to enhance their reflective writing skills and to examine their own practice in greater critical depth.