Advanced physiotherapy for children and adolescentsLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You can identify and assess motor development and common impairments of children and young people.
You can take into account disease-specific features in the planning, implementation and guidance of physiotherapy for children and adolescents.
You can apply therapeutic exercise individually for promoting the functional ability of children and adolescents.
You can design and implement different therapeutic exercises and applied exercises for children and adolescents with special needs, both individually and in groups.
You can work in multi-professional teams and with families and take into account their psychosocial resources and environmental possibilities.

Content

How do you assess and support motor development and functional ability of children and adolescents in different age groups?
How do you take into account the specific features of diseases in physiotherapy?
How do you take into account the families and living environments of children and adolescents in physiotherapy?
How do you apply therapeutic exercises and applied group exercises in a client-centered way with children and adolescents needing special support?
How do you show your expertise of physiotherapy in multi-professional teams?

Qualifications

Attending the course requires that the learning outcomes of the 1st and 2nd academic year studies have been achieved.

Evaluation

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
b. evaluate information sources critically.
c. work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
d. evaluate operations in client, user and target group situations.
e. choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
f. promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.
g. apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.