Expertise in physical therapy practice : applications for practice, teaching, and research /

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 m...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Jensen, Gail M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders Elsevier, ©2007.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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 VirtueA 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 323 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1416002146
9781416002147
9781416068464
1416068465