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Reflective practice is exploring the taken-for-granted. It includes the identification and challenge of therapist assumptions and clinical interpretations. Reflective practice includes assumptions about reality is, how it relates to other knowledge, compares to an ideal, and forms a complete understanding of a particular phenomenon. Schön (The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Routledge, New York, NY, 1983) can be credited with the first use of the term. Reflective practice a set of techniques and a way of thinking about one’s practice. The concepts of hot spots, blind spots, and soft spots are areas for continued reflection, personal, and professional development.

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Brown, J.D. (2019). Reflective Practice Framework. In: Reflective Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy in a Diverse Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24505-4_1

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