Expertise in Physical Therapy Practice
- 2nd Edition - September 29, 2006
- Latest edition
- Authors: Gail M. Jensen, Jan M. Gwyer, Laurita M. Hack, Katherine F. Shepard
- Language: English
**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Physical Therapy**This comprehensive text examines what it takes to progress toward - and ultimately become - an expert in physica… Read more
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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Physical Therapy**
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.
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.
- Introduces the four core concepts that comprise the model of expertise: Knowledge, Clinical Reasoning, Movement, and Virtue
- A Data Collection Tools Appendix provides a step-by-step description of the process that the authors used to select, interview, and collect data from the experts in each case study to demonstrates the use of critical thinking and research-based analysis
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 Expertise
Part II. Portraits of Expertise in Physical Therapy
4. Expert Practice in Pediatrics: When Work is Play
5. Expert Practice in Geriatrics: You’re 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 Later
Part 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 Development
Part 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 Development
Appendix: Data Collection 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 Expertise
Part II. Portraits of Expertise in Physical Therapy
4. Expert Practice in Pediatrics: When Work is Play
5. Expert Practice in Geriatrics: You’re 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 Later
Part 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 Development
Part 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 Development
Appendix: Data Collection Tools
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: September 29, 2006
- Language: English
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Gail M. Jensen
Dr. Jensen is Vice Provost for Learning and Assessment, Dean Emerita, and Professor of Physical Therapy at Creighton University. She is known nationally and internationally for scholarly contributions in expert practice, clinical reasoning, professional ethics, and interprofessional education. Dr. Jensen is author or coauthor of more than 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has coauthored 13 books, including the fourth edition of Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions (Higgs, Jensen, Loftus, Christensen), Educating Physical Therapists, and in 2020, Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making in Physical Therapy. She led the research team that completed a National Study of Excellence and Innovation in Physical Therapist Education funded by the American Physical Therapy Association and several APTA components. She serves on a number of editorial boards and most recently became an associate editor for The Clinical Teacher. Dr. Jensen received her PhD in educational evaluation with a minor in sociology from Stanford University. She holds a master’s degree in physical therapy from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Minnesota.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Dept of Physical Therapy and Dept of Medical Humanities; Vice Provost for Learning and Assessment, Dean Emerita School of Pharmacy and Health Professions Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska, USAJG
Jan M. Gwyer
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Physical Therapy, Duke University, Durham, NCLH
Laurita M. Hack
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Physical Therapy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PAKS
Katherine F. Shepard
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Director of Physical Therapy, Doctor of Philosophy Program in Physical Therapy, Department of Physical Therapy, College of Allied Health Professionals, Temple University, Philadelphia, PARead Expertise in Physical Therapy Practice on ScienceDirect