Description
This comprehensive text examines what it takes to progress toward - and ultimately become - an expert in physical therapy. It explores multiple dimensions of expertise:: how expert practitioners develop, what knowledge they use, where they acquire that knowledge, how they think and reason, how they make decisions, and how they perform in practice to demonstrate what it takes to progress and ultimately become an expert in physical therapy.
Product Details
Reference
32472
EAN13
9781416002147
ISBN
9781416002147
Data sheet
Publication date
2006
Issue number
2
Cover
paperback
Pages count
352
Dimensions (mm)
191 x 235
Weight (g)
570
Part I. Studying Expertise: Purpose, Concepts, and Tools 1. Professional Life: Issues of Health Care, Education, and Development 2. Understanding Expertise: Connecting Research and Theory to Physical Therapy 3. Methods for Exploring ExpertisePart II. Portraits of Expertise in Physical Therapy 4. Expert Practice in Pediatrics: When Work is Play 5. Expert Practice in Geriatrics: Youre Never Too Old 6. Experienced Practice in Neurological Rehabilitation: Experts in the Making 7. Expert Practice in Orthopedics: Competence, Collaboration, and Compassion 8. Expert Practice in Physical Therapy 9. Postscript : The Voices of our Experts - Ten Years LaterPart III. Lessons Learned and Applied 10. Expert Practice and Clinical Outcomes 11. Clinical Reasoning and Expert Practice 12. Situated Expertise: The Wisdom of Practice in a Transdisciplinary Rehabilitation Clinic 13. Implications for Practice: Applying the Dimensions of Expertise for Staff Professional DevelopmentPart IV. Pursuing Expertise in Physical Therapy 14. Inquiry into Expertise: Future Directions 15. Implications for Doctoral Level Education in Physical Therapy 16. Implications for Practice and Professional DevelopmentAppendix: Data Collection Tools