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something done for private advantage; something that has to be done; a specific duty, role, or function; a regular remunerative position
job
a field for or pursuit of consecutive progressive achievement especially in public, professional, or business life; a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling
carrer
-a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation; a principal calling, vocation, or employment
profession
What are the two primary basis for specialization with in a profession
- Substantive field of knowledge that the specialist professes to command
- Technique of production or application of knowledge over which the specialist claims mastery.
What are the Criteria to be considered a Profession?
~commitment to public good (health promotion / APTA Code of Ethics)
~advanced expertise and education (practitioner of choice /evidence-based practice/ Doctor of PT)
-independent judgment (Autonomous Practice / Direct Access)
-social organization and recognition (joining APTA, LPTA, District Level organizations)
What are the 3 Components of Professional Knowledge?
- Underlying discipline or basic science component where the practice rests or was developed
- Applied science component from which day to day procedures and problem-solutions are derived.
- Skills and attitudinal component that concerns performance of service to a client using basic and applied knowledge.
Who do PTs Treat?
Musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary, integumentary
How are patients treated?
- Exam & Eval
- Intervention
- Coordination, communication, documentation
- Patient/client-related instructions/education
Who is a Physical Therapist Assistant?
- provide physical therapy services under supervision of a PT.
- May assist with include mobility, strength and coordination exercises as well as patient education.
Explain Examination vs Evaluation for physical therapist?
Examination-includes test and measures; a collection of information
Evaluation-assesment of that information; comparing to what you expect to see
What happened during: 460 BC- 1921- 1967- 1968- 1974- 1981- 1996-
460 BC-massage and hydrotherapy
1921- The PT Review-first scholarly journal of PT in US (now called Physical Therapy)
–PT association founded by Mary McMilan (now APTA)
–First national accreditation board (CAPTE)
1950s-private practice more prominent
1967-Social Security Act-added as definition for outpatient PT
1968-california-1st state with direct access
1974-orthopedic became first specialty of APTA
1981-code of ethics published
1996-1st DPT class graduated
What is Vision 2020?
- Physical Therapy will be provided by doctors
- have direct access for diagnosis and intervention of patients to prevent impairment, functional limitations and disabilities related to movement
- Autonomous Practice
- Direct Access
- Doctor of PT
- Evidence-based Practice
- Practioner of Choice
- Professionalism
information attained through experience and mistakes
Knowldege
What are the different 6 Learning Theories?
Liberal/Traditional Behavioral Cognitivism Social Cognitivism/Humanistic Constructivism Experiential Learning Theory
knowledge is concrete;
- instructor/learner is pass down information,
- purpose is to create informed citizens that follow social rules of order,
- teaching methods are book recitation and lecture
liberal tradiditonal
knowledge is learned behavior or response to stimuli;
- learner is passive (responding to stimuli);
- positive reinforcement (applying a stimuli) or negative reinforcement (withholding a stimuli)
behaverial
What is an effective reinforcement schedule for Behavioral Learning?
1-consistent repetition of the learned material
2-small, progressive sequences of tasks
3-continous positive reinforcement
*behaviors will be modified until they receive positive reinforcement
- computer model (brain as a computer processor);
- learning involves writing and reading
- instructor provides information to help learner processes it and commit it to memory through repitition
cognitivist education
What are the four major learning stages of Cognitivist Education?
1-attention
2-processing
3-memory storage
4-action
social factors on individual’s thinking, perception and motivation;
- knowledge is a combination of what is taught, seen and felt;
- pays close attention to the context of the learning situation
social cognitvistic
What is Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory?
- human behavior is learned observationally
- through other’s behaviors, attitudes and outcomes of behaviors
knowledge is internal and individual
- reality is relative and different for everyone;
- knowledge is created by comparing what is known to what is new
- paradigm shifts aid learning
constructive educational learning
Cognitive Constructivism
- Assimilation-old/known information (world view stay the same)
- Accommodation-new information (world view changes to accept the new information)
piaget
- Social Constructivism
- More knowledgable other (teacher knows more)
- zone of proximal development (bridging the gap between student and instructor)
vygostsky