DPT 7340 - Health and Wellness

Credits: 3 hrs

This course will cover a broad range of topics including areas of mental, phyical, and social health. This course is designed to learn about wellness and its relationships to the provision of physical therapy. Throughout the course, students will learn self-responsibility and skills to promote a long and healthy life. This course will assist the physical therapy in embracing the role oof wellness in delivery of physical theraphy services as outlined inthe Guide of Physical Therapist Practist. The material will include foundational knowledge, theorethical models and empirical research and the application of this material to the practice of physical therapy.

(approved by Graduate Council October 2018)
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the traditional Doctor of Physical Therapy Program