Description
Essential Skills for Physiotherapists: A Personal and Professional Development Framework explores the vital intrapersonal and interpersonal skills that physiotherapists need for continuous growth. These are rarely taught in academic courses, clinical training, and other physiotherapy textbooks – but they make all the difference for our patients!
Non-clinical, ‘soft’ skills are crucial ingredients for a successful and exciting career in physiotherapy - and are transferable to other walks of life, and other professions. This book introduces the reader to trainable skills such as leadership, wellbeing, career mapping and habit building. Other topics range from building a personal brand, interdisciplinary thinking, communication, networking, and relationship building. The real challenge in our profession is often integrating knowledge and theory to practice - and this book unpacks how to implement these skills in different settings, to support clinical practice and professional development.
This unique resource is based on the curriculum from the successful education and mentoring platform, The Learning Physiotherapist (TLP), which compiles life lessons from a diverse range of world-leading international physiotherapists. Learn from elite professional sport, public and private healthcare practitioners, researchers, and academics from environments such as Liverpool FC, Cirque du Soleil, Isokinetic Medical Group, San Antonio Spurs, NHS, Aspetar and the IRFU.
Learn directly from these renowned industry leaders as they share priceless knowledge, learnings from mistakes and invaluable insights…plus ways to seamlessly weave these into your own practical scenarios.
- Provides actionable, practical advice on essential soft skills - an invaluable tool to enhance your practice and career
- Encompasses core principles of interpersonal skills that are often not covered in academic courses and clinical experience
- Packed with stories and anecdotes from various experts in real-life work scenarios, as well as tailored networking techniques for today's healthcare professionals
- Research-backed content, innovative methods, and high-level academic rigor to improve your own high performance and wellbeing
- Reflective key points and introspective questions to facilitate deeper understanding and useable takeaways
- Contributions from TLP mentors and students with experience in professional sport environments, private practice, public healthcare, research, and academia
Table of Contents
1. Your Wellbeing
2. Purpose and Values
3. Habits – Sleep, Nutrition and Recovery
4. Better Communication – Intentional Listening, Empathy and Feedback
5. Seeking Mentorship Consistently and Network Building
6. Cohesive Working
7. Curiosity, Learning and Reflection
8. Goals and Motivation
9. Personal Brand Design
10. Mental Fitness – Resilience and Facing Challenges
11. High Performance – Leading Yourself and Others With Purpose
12. Life/Work Alignment
13. Dealing With Stress
14A Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Wayne Diesel
14B Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Ian Horsley
14C Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Ritchie Barber
14D Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Deepak Agnihotri
14E Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Evert Verhagen
14F Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Roisin McNulty
14G Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Evangelos Benatos and Andreas Gatzoulis
14H Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Chris Jones
14I Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Jacopo Mattaini
14J Setbacks, Success, Personal Stories and Reflections – Carl Gombrich
