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Second Edition
By
Gail Jensen, PhD, PT, FAPTA, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Jan Gwyer, PhD, PT, Department of Physical Therapy, Duke University, Durham, NC
Laurita Hack, PhD, MBA, DPT, FAPTA, Department of Physical Therapy, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Katherine Shepard, PhD, PT, FAPTA, 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, PA
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.
Contents
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
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Paperback, 352 pages, publication date: SEP-2006
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-0214-7
ISBN-10: 1-4160-0214-6
Imprint: SAUNDERS
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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