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Psychosocial Focused Reasoning

While everyone thinks, not everyone thinks about their thinking. This presentation will provide an overview of key clinical reasoning theory. Read more ↓
4 Episodes 54m
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01
Why Psychosocial Factors Matter, From Coping to Illness Beliefs

Why psychosocial factors belong in physiotherapy reasoning, covering vulnerability and resilience, stress and coping theory, threat appraisal, illness representations and the continuum of distress that sets the limits of physiotherapy scope.

18:48
02
Screening Cognition, Distress, Coping and Social Factors

A framework for screening psychosocial factors in four broad categories, cognition, distress, coping strategies and social factors, and for picking up the information patients volunteer while answering other questions.

12:07
03
Psychosocial Questioning, Questionnaires and Judging Relevance

When and how to ask psychosocial questions, how to choose targeted questionnaires based on the subjective examination, and how to judge whether psychosocial factors are actually relevant to a patient's problem.

10:36
04
Managing Psychosocial Factors With Education and Graded Exposure

How physiotherapists manage psychosocial factors through tailored therapeutic education, time-contingent cognition-targeted exercise, the ABC model, pacing and graded exposure, and which common errors weaken psychosocial assessment and treatment.

12:33

This lecture covers:

  • Psychosocial-focussed clinical reasoning

Learning points:

On completion of this presentation along with Fast and Slow Reasoning lecture:

  1. Participants will increase their understanding of the cognitive processes and essential clinical judgments in clinical reasoning within a biopsychosocial framework.
  2. Participants will learn common errors of clinical reasoning.
  3. Participants will learn strategies to minimize reasoning errors.
  4. Participants will learn strategies to reduce “noise” in physiotherapy judgments and for improving clinical reasoning.
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