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Professional identity and competence to practise in medicine
Published in Roger Ellis, Elaine Hogard, Professional Identity in the Caring Professions, 2020
Essays on professional competence are as numerous as they are diffuse. There appears to be no agreement as to the domain of skills required nor the best way of assessing them. Early studies used patient surveys, analysis of personal case record and observational techniques as well as critical incident technique. These studies suggested that competence concerned efficacy of diagnosis, provision of care and developing relationships.
No Tempests, No Teapots
Published in Frank C. Wilson, David C. Leach, Graduate Medical Education, 2018
Frank C. Wilson, David C. Leach
The first step is to identify those who are unusually imaginative, since the innovative applicant is not set apart by present methods of selection. Psychometric indices of creativity could be incorporated into the Medical College Aptitude Test or the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The critical incident technique might also be used to identify students possessing the traits most often associated with creative behaviors.
Using emotional intelligence to navigate a critical incident
Published in John Hurley, Paul Linsley, Emotional Intelligence in Health and Social Care, 2018
Self-assessment of this kind helps individuals reflect in a constructive way by ‘returning to an experience, describing it and attending to thoughts and feelings’ (Platzer et al. 1997, p. 193). Critical incident analysis is a structured form of reflection that seeks to measure practice and actions taken in a critical incident against professional codes of conduct and practice guidelines (Wilshaw and Bohannan 2003). The Critical Incident Technique involves: describing an incident from your recent professional experience that was either challenging or thought-provokingsuggesting an explanation within the immediate contextasking questions that delve deeper into the meaning behind the incident, e.g. different ways of thinking about it, exploring the dilemma, and considering personal theories and values, which influence that judgementconsidering the implications that this has for future practice (adapted from Tripp 1993).
Female sexual desire: what helps, what hinders, and what women want
Published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 2021
Stefanie Sara Krasnow, Asa-Sophia Maglio
This study used the Enhanced Critical Incident Technique (ECIT; Butterfield, Borgen, Maglio, & Amundson, 2009). This method was used because of its unique balance of helping, hindering, and wish-list inquires, and its thorough credibility procedures. The unique properties of this method address gaps in the current literature on female sexual desire by: interviewing a group of women who experience sexual desire, with no designation of sexual desire level (e.g., low or high sexual desire); balancing both positive and negative influences on experienced female sexual desire thus allowing a sex-positive, non-problem-oriented focus; capturing women’s expertise in their own sexual experiences; highlighting female agency in understanding what could have helped them in experiencing sexual desire. Unlike other qualitative methods that investigate lived experiences in participants’ pasts, the ECIT’s wish-list component uniquely elicits data that represents women’s aspirations, hopes, and ideas about what would or could help their sexual desire (Butterfield et al., 2009). This aspect of the ECIT was seen as a suitable approach for the research aim of addressing the gaps in the literature outlined in the introduction. The helping factors and wish list items of the ECIT design were also seen as essential to furthering a sex-positive and positive-psychology-oriented approach to the study of female sexual desire.
Critical incidents that help and hinder the development and maintenance of polyamorous relationships
Published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 2018
Danielle Duplassie, Nichole Fairbrother
The Critical Incident Technique (CIT; Flanagan, 1954) is a qualitative approach that focuses on an individual's personal experience of a particular phenomenon. It was originally developed to study US Air Force pilots during the Second World War. The CIT has been used to investigate a range of phenomena in psychology and other disciplines, including the investigation of performance in psychology internships (Ross & Altmaier, 1990), the development of a list of significant psychotherapist behaviors (Plutchik, Conte, & Karasu, 1994), an understanding of how to learn Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (Duplassie, MacKnee, & Williams, 2008), and the investigation of what facilitates the transition from homelessness (MacKnee & Mervyn, 2002). Over the past 60 years, the CIT has seen increasing use and it is currently acknowledged as an effective tool for empirical investigation and exploration (Butterfield, Borgen, Amundson, & Maglio, 2009; Woolsey, 1986). In the current study, the CIT was employed to investigate the experiences of polyamorous individuals regarding what helped or hindered their ability and desire to develop and maintain polyamorous relationships. The approach entailed interviewing individuals who were in a polyamorous relational dynamic and documenting the specific events and/or experiences (i.e. critical incidents [CIs]) that they perceived had helped or hindered their ability to develop and maintain this relational form.
What are the critical incidents that affect how people cope with being detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act (1983, 2007)?
Published in International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, 2019
Thomas Goodall, Elizabeth Newton, Michael Larkin
A qualitative approach to understanding the experience of S136 is likely to provide a valuable opportunity to understand the complex experience that may not be covered by other methodologies (Gillard et al., 2010). Critical incident technique (CIT, Flanagan, 1954; Butterfield, Borgen, Amundson, & Maglio, 2005) is a methodological framework which is used in the identification of specific factors which worsened or improved a specific incident. In addition, CIT has been previously used to understand such contributory factors in areas such as aviation, including accident investigation and selecting appropriate air crew (Flanagan, 1954).