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Effective practice guide: Practitioners – professional curiosity insights (adult services)

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2022
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This insights guide explores what professional curiosity is, why it is important, errors, bias and barriers that impede its use and how you can mitigate these. In addition, the pack highlights themes where a lack of professional curiosity has impacted on the quality of case supervision, and we share case illustrations where professional curiosity has improved the quality of supervision.

We recognise that practitioners are busy; therefore, this is not designed to be read as a report. Instead, we encourage you to dip in and out of the guide and use the sections that feel the most beneficial for you.