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Year 1 Physiotherapy.
Coordinator: Associate Professor D Horne.
Contact: Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject, students should have been introduced to psychological constructs which can facilitate their professional development and practice as physiotherapists, and encouraged to develop a holistic model of their work.General Objectives: Students will be presented with information on, and will be expected to appreciate the implications of, psychological theory for physiotherapy practice in each of the syllabus areas described below.
Content:
Lecture program: Three blocks of lectures.
Block 1: Communicating with and assessing clients; (includes) physio-client anxieties, communication skills, clinical decision-making, concepts of normality, loss and grief, abnormal psychology and relevant personality constructs. Block 2: Teaching and motivating clients; (includes) sport psychology, motivation and rehabilitation, increasing desired behaviours. Block 3: Physical and psychological interactions in illness; (includes) stress and stress management, psychology of pain and chronic illness, systemic interaction of psychological and physical factors.
Tutorial program: Largely, but not exclusively, parallels lecture program. The tutorials are about discussing, reflecting on, and in some cases, applying the concepts raised in the lectures.
Assessment:
Research project (10 per cent); an essay of up to 2,000 words (25 per cent) and a 2.5-hour end-of-semester written examination (65 per cent).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (Volume 4 page 145)
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