July 5, 2025

8:30 am – 12:00 pm

Critical Thinking Skills General 3 CEUS – VIRTUAL

This presentation reviews the literature on critical thinking in social work education and practice with individuals and client systems. It aims to assist social workers and human services educators with skills and information to help them to challenge their decision making and to think more critically. This presentation was motivated by the desire to awaken clinicians to think outside the box and to self-evaluate any erroneous or biased thinking that may interfere with the delivery of services to their clients. During this presentation we will become more familiar with critical thinking skills and examine models and strategies for promoting critical thinking in social work practice. This presentation is for three hours of general ceus.

Objective:

• This presentation hopes to challenge participants to think more critically when applying and assessing clients and systems.
• Participants will be able to summarize the definition of critical thinking and importance of thinking critically when making decisions that impact clients.
• Attendees will review the literature on critical thinking in social work education and practice with individuals and client systems.
• Participants will be challenged to identify biases in their thinking and how erroneous thinking and biases interfere with the helping process.
• Participants will be engaged in a discussion on self-awareness and encouraged to take a comprehensive inventory of our feelings, values, behaviors, and attitudes and how they may hinder the client’s progress.
• Attendees will examine models and strategies for promoting critical thinking in social work practice.
• Examine research at HBCU and glean what we can learn from viewing clients of African descent from African centered lens.
• Attendees will examine research on how to evaluate practice theories, examine weaknesses and strengths.