Books written by Joy Higgs

Contexts of Physiotherapy Practice

When stressors are longer term and unresolved, graduates' coping strategies are undermined (Hummell 2007, Roe-Shaw 2004). The potential contributions of mentors, supervisors and peers The workplace contributes to professional ...
A History of Seating, 3000 BC to 2000 AD: Function Versus Aesthetics

Palmer (1996) stated that 'functions are the purposes to which objects are put' (p. 10) and that these purposes could vary according to changing sociocultural and historical concepts. He illustrated this argument (that function is ...
Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions

Academic Medicine 73(10 Suppl):S19–S21 Graber M 2003 Metacognitive training to reduce diagnostic errors: ready for ... Cambridge University Press, New York Janis I L, Mann L 1977 Decision-making: a psychological analysis of conflict, ...
Practice Wisdom: Values and Interpretations

Practice Wisdom: Values and Interpretations brings diverse views and interpretations to an exploration of what wisdom in professional practice means and can become: academically, practically and inspirationally.
Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions E-Book

Developing Professional Judgement in Health Care: Learning Through the Critical Appreciation of Practice. Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, UK. ... Clinical Judgement in Health and Welfare Professions: Extending the Evidence Base.
Communicating in the Health Sciences

"Communicating in the Health Sciences introduces students to the nature and importance of communication in the health sciences, with comprehensive coverage of all the written, electronic, visual, and interpersonal communication...
Writing Qualitative Research on Practice

"This book is located in the context of professional practice and the practice world. It scopes and maps the broad horizons of qualitative research on practice and explores writing in major qualitative research traditions.
Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts

These roles will require her involvement in a range of research related activities such as searching and critique of the literature, and applying this information in her practice. The investigator role in particular, will mean that she ...
Professional Practice Discourse Marginalia

The essential attitude and confidence of busy practitioners strongly influences their participation in discourse activity. Having a good idea in isolation cannot influence practice theory or the development of one's profession.
Education for Employability (Volume 1): The Employability Agenda

Universities are expected to produce employable graduates. In Education for Employability experts explore critical questions in the employability agenda.
Practice-Based Education: Perspectives and Strategies

Practice-Based Education: Perspectives and Strategies. This book draws on the collective vision, research, scholarship and experience of leading academics in the field of practice-based and professional education.
Developing Practice Capability: Transforming Workplace Learning

Current trends in physiotherapy practice. In J. Higgs, M. Smith, G. Webb, M. Skinner, & A. Croker (Eds.), Contexts of physiotherapy practice (pp. 20-32). Sydney, Australia: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier. Dreyfus, S. (2004).
Collaborating in Healthcare: Reinterpreting Therapeutic Relationships

Physiotherapists as communicators and educators. In J. Higgs, M. Smith, G. Webb, M. Skinner & A. Croker (Eds.), Contexts of physiotherapy practice (pp. 233-245). Sydney: Elsevier. Belbin, M. (1993). Team roles at work.
Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions E-Book

Totally revised and updated, this book continues to provide the essential text on the theoretical basis of clinical reasoning in the health professions and examines strategies for assisting learners, scholars and clinicians develop their ...
Researching Practice: A Discourse on Qualitative Methodologies

The authors bring a wealth of research practice wisdom and experience to this task. The book provides critical and creative input to the discourse on qualitative research methodologies. It is divided into four sections.
Creative Spaces for Qualitative Researching: Living Research

This book looks inward at researchers who are seeking to live their research – to embody the principles, methodologies and ethical conduct that comprises their research strategies.
Education for Employability (Volume 2): Learning for Future Possibilities

you need to be proactive about building 21st century skills to assist you in transitioning to the world of work. ... who developed the CareerEDGE Model which highlights the differing components that lead to employability and includes ...
Challenging Future Practice Possibilities

Challenging Future Practice Possibilities examines influences that are maintaining the status quo and others that are pushing interest-driven change.
Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions

A multidisciplinary text for the health professions, with relevance across the various health disciplines. International scholars, researchers, and teachers contribute their ideas, research findings, and experiences to promote discussion on...
EDUCATING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: BECOMING A UNIVERSITY TEACHER

... Indigenous Australian knowledges and perspectives into programs according to a culturally competent pedagogical framework. d) Train teaching staff in Indigenous pedagogy for teaching Indigenous studies and students effectively, ...