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Volume 7, Issue 6 (Suppl) J Nov Physiother
ISSN: 2165-7025 JNP, an open access journal Physiotherapy 2017
November 27-29, 2017
November 27-29, 2017 Dubai, UAE
5 th International Conference on
Physiotherapy
Transcending clinic walls: Physical therapy transforms society through community engagement
Susan G Klappa
Briar Cliff University, USA
Our educational programs teach professionalism, advocacy, evidence-based engagement and community engagement.
The vision statement of the APTA calls us to transform society. How is it possible to teach and learn skills of societal
transformation when there is so much else to learn? The SEED-SCALE model involves the ability to learn to adapt and innovate
across a broad spectrum of human experiences. It is the truest definition of evolutionary progress and societal transformation.
SEED-SCALE standardizes a process for evolving locally specific solutions. Many of the worsening conditions of peoples’
lives today are the result of earlier well-intentioned actions. Community and development programs may stimulate economic
growth, but often do not benefit all people. These programs lift some or most, but often these programs thrive on disparity,
benefitting only a few. Fundamental change happens in our lives because of what people do, making use of what they have, where
they are today! Community action has the potential to scale up global solutions by integrating with systems of governance,
technical expertise and cultural expression. Community-based growth occurs quickly as people teach each other, hold each
other accountable and enact localized adaptive decisions in an iterative manner to respond to opportunities. Genuine human
progress involves the use of human hands, hearts and minds to do what we can with what we have here, today. Empowerment
is what people do using partnerships with structures of authority, outsiders and communities using bottom up, top down and
inside out collaborations. By utilizing the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Function (ICF) Model,
physical therapists can analyze and understand the influence of racism, ableism and structural oppression as environmental
factors that create poor health and inhibit participation in important life activities. Strategies to facilitate full participation are
by becoming effective agents of change to eliminate injustice and marginalization.
Biography
Susan G Klappa is a Professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at Briar Cliff University, USA. She has completed her PhD in Education, Curriculum
and Instruction from the University of Minnesota with a focus on community engagement and obtained her Masters of Physical Therapy degree from St. Catherine
University. she is a PT educator and clinician who has practiced physical therapy internationally. She has a special interest in global and local public health. She
has worked in outpatient clinics, at a Level I trauma center and in disaster relief tent hospitals with patients with neurological, cardiopulmonary, integumentary and
other problems. Her research interests explore how inter-professional collaboration, global health work and international community engagement influence the
formation of professional identity among physical therapists.
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Susan G Klappa, J Nov Physiother 2017, 7:6(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7025-C1-020