Critical thinking for addiction professionals / Michael J. Taleff.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-150) and index.

The world of critical thinking -- Critical thinking: an overview of key elements -- Poor thinking: from the individual to the field -- Time for a little test -- Critical thinking: the basics -- What drives bad thinking? -- A crash course in fallacies -- Fallacies that appeal to authority and irrelevant fallacies -- Causal fallacies and weak inductions -- Fallacies that presume a conclusion before it is proven and classification fallacies -- Fallacies caused by perception problems and fallacies of manner and style -- The ethics of using critical thinking -- What price critical thinking?.