PHTH 745 - Cultural, Ethical, and Psychosocial Aspects of Healthcare (3)

This course emphasizes the biopsychosocial/spiritual approach to health care and wellness by developing the physical therapist’s understanding of psychosocial considerations and cultural competence. It entails the use of a systems perspective that values differences and is responsive to diversity at all levels of an organization, i.e., policy, governance, administrative, workforce, provider, and consumer/client. Physical therapy students learn to promote and support the attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, and skills necessary to work respectfully and effectively with patients and each other in a culturally diverse work environment. Students use demographics, cultural, epidemiological and clinical outcome data for racial and ethnic groups in the service area, and become informed about the ethnic/cultural needs, resources, and assets of the surrounding community. Psychosocial conditions, with an emphasis on the ways that mental health across the lifespan impacts physical health, are examined. Spring