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Thesis
ROLE OF CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT SELECTION
University of West Florida
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2013
Abstract
Previous research has evaluated how medical practitioners utilize critical thinking skills to determine which treatments should be presented to clients. Yet there are only a handful of studies that evaluate how clients personally utilize critical thinking skills to select treatments. With the large amount of mental health information available through advertising and the Internet, it is important to understand how people evaluate this information. Critical thinking is examined in five dimensions: inference, interpretation, deduction, recognition of assumptions, and evaluation of arguments. The current study used three masked and unmasked treatment descriptions to determine if statements related to individual critical thinking dimensions would correspond to scores in each of the dimensions. Researchers hypothesized that critical thinking scores would be related to treatment selection. Results indicate that participants with higher critical thinking skills were more likely to choose a treatment with some to extensive amounts of empirical research. Participants with lower critical thinking skills were more likely to choose the pseudotreatment. Qualitative data suggest there is a relationship between the critical thinking dimensions and which treatments were selected, but the quantitative data does not show a statistically significant relationship. Additional research is recommended to explore this relationship in depth.
Details
- Title
- ROLE OF CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT SELECTION
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida
- Format
- text
- Identifiers
- 99380090868206600
- Academic Unit
- Psychology
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida