Masterclasses in Clinical Reasoning – Psychosocial Focused Reasoning

The main objectives of this masterclass are:

1.    Relevance of psychosocial factors to patients’ clinical presentations;

2.    Stress and coping and illness representation theory that helps explain patients’ thoughts, emotions and behaviours;

3.    Suggestions on what physiotherapists should assess;

4.    Strategies for how to assess psychosocial factors;

5.    Common errors in psychosocial reasoning; and

6.    Implications of psychosocial assessment and reasoning to physiotherapy management.

Presenter: Mark Jones

CPD Points: 1