In this second edition of How to Run Reflective Practice Groups: The Heads and Hearts Model for Healthcare Professionals Arabella Kurtz provides a comprehensive guide to the facilitation of reflective practice groups with the aim of demystifying reflective practice and providing structure and purpose.
Responding to the rapidly increasing demand for reflective practice groups in healthcare and drawing on her extensive experience as a facilitator and trainer, Kurtz presents a fully developed, eight-stage model: The Heads and Hearts Model of Reflective Practice Groups. The book offers a guide to the organisation, structure and delivery of group sessions, with useful suggestions for overcoming commonly encountered problems and promoting empathic relationships with clients and colleagues. The second edition has been enlarged and updated, with new chapters on the role of the facilitator and management of group dynamics, what can be learnt from research in the area, and adaptations of the model for brief, responsive reflective practice and the facilitation of groups online.
Clearly and accessibly written, using full situational examples for each stage of the presented model, How to Run Reflective Practice Groups offers a comprehensive guide to facilitating reflective practice for any healthcare professional.
Table of Contents:
Part One: The Heads and Hearts Model of reflective practice groups
Chapter 1. Contracting and Review at the Organisational Level
Chapter 2. Contracting and Review at the Group Level
Chapter 3. Turning In
Chapter 4. Looking Back
Chapter 5. Generation
Chapter 6. Free Response
Chapter 7. More Effortful Thinking
Chapter 8. Turning Out
Part Two: Process, research and adaptations
Chapter 9. The role of the facilitator and group dynamics
Chapter 10. What can we learn from research into reflective practice groups?
Chapter 11. Brief, responsive reflective practice: Adaptations of the Heads and Hearts Model
Chapter 12. How to run reflective practice groups online: Adaptations of the Heads and Hearts Model
Conclusion
About the Author :
Arabella Kurtz is a consultant clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She has worked in adult and forensic mental health services in the UK National Health Service, and in climincal psychology training and staff support. She now works in NHS staff health and well-being services and in private practice.
Review :
'If services are to develop a culture of compassionate care then reflective practice should be integral and this book provides a model for how this could be achieved.'
Tony Lavender, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
'Arabella Kurtz’s book is a rich and compelling account of why and how reflective practice in groups can and must be implemented throughout health and care. Taking time out to reflect collectively on what we are trying to achieve, how we are going about it and what we need to change can seem like an optional diversion. It is not. Reflective practice is the royal road to innovation and improving care for those we serve.'
Michael West CBE, Senior Visiting Fellow, The King’s Fund, London. Professor of Organizational Psychology, Lancaster University, UK
'With communities of reflective practice emerging across the United Kingdom and Australia, Dr Kurtz’s updated book arrives at a pivotal time. This edition provides a detailed exploration of group dynamics and the facilitator role, as well as developments such as the post-pandemic rise of the online medium and the use of reflective practice groups as brief interventions. There is also a summary of the growing evidence pointing towards their restorative and formative benefits.'
Chris Dawber, Reflective Practice Group Consultancy. Mental Health Nurse and Psychotherapist, Queensland, Australia
