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Physiotherapy a Psychosocial Approach

  • 1st Edition - March 18, 1992
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Sally French
  • Language: English

Physiotherapy: A Psychosocial Approach provides a variety of topics in the fields of sociology and psychology. This book examines the changing role of physiotherapists as their… Read more

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Physiotherapy: A Psychosocial Approach provides a variety of topics in the fields of sociology and psychology. This book examines the changing role of physiotherapists as their work shifts from hospital to community settings and as more work with patients and clients who have learning difficulties or are mentally ill. Organized into 28 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the concepts of complex social prevention in place of medical prevention. This text then the social disadvantages and stress that women experience in terms of low status, low paid employment and their additional responsibilities of childcare and housework, which may also help to explain their high incidence of mental illness. Other chapters consider the marked regional variations in the incidence of disease. The final chapter deals with the sociological and psychological issues of disabled people. This book is a valuable resource for physiotherapy students, sociologists, social psychologists, and practicing physiotherapists.

Table of contents


List of Contributors

Preface


1. Society and the Changing Nature of Illness and Disease


2. Inequalities in Health


3. Sex, Gender and Health Care


4. Ethnicity, Health and Health Care


5. Ageism


6. Institutional or Community Living?


7. Ethical Decision-Making in Physiotherapy


8. Communication in Physiotherapy Practice (1)


9. Communication in Physiotherapy Practice (2)


10. Clinical Interviewing


11. The Psychology and Sociology of Pain


12. Why do People Become Patients?


13. Stress: Its Relation to Illness, Hospitalization and Work


14. Health, Health Education and Physiotherapy Practice


15. Defining Disability—Its Implications for Physiotherapy Practice


16. Death, Dying and Bereavement


17. Lay Beliefs About Health and Illness


18. Psychological Development of the Child: Its Implications for Physiotherapy Practice


19. Growing Older: Changes in Mental Performance


20. Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Setting


21. Psychological Aspects of Sports Injuries and Overtraining


22. Addiction


23. Psychophysiological and Somatoform Disorders


24. Cognitive and Perceptual Deficits Following Brain Damage


25. The Powerful Placebo


26. Counselling


27. Psychological Treatment in Physiotherapy Practice


28. Disability: Some Psychological and Sociological Issues

Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 2, 1992
  • Language: English

About the editor

SF

Sally French

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, School of Management and Social Sciences, King Alfred's College of Higher Education, Winchester, UK

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