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Critical Thinking

Critical thinking skills are central to effective safeguarding practice. Critical thinking requires professionals to actively think about their role, and being reflective and curious about the factors, circumstances and dynamics that impact the families we work with.

In everyday usage, the word ‘critical’ often carries negative connotations and ‘being critical’ is seen as (largely unhelpful) fault finding. But critical thinking is not inherently about undermining or negating other people’s ideas or work. Critical thinking is purposeful. It takes a questioning (and self-questioning) attitude towards the issue or problem at hand and examines the information, ideas, assumptions and concepts etc., associated with it and considers how they act to support a particular view or interpretation of the situation.

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