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Glossary (A-Z)

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A B C D E F G H I L M N O P Q R S T U W

• Ability to practise

• Academic quality

• Academic standard

• Access by referral

• Access by referral with an imposed programme of intervention

• Access by referral with the freedom to decide intervention

• Access to physical therapy

• Accountability

• Accreditation

• Act

• Activities of daily living (ADL)

• Activity limitation

• Adaptive devices

• Advanced clinical competence

• Assistive devices

• Assistive products and technology

• Assistive technology

• Associate faculty

• Asylum seeker

• Bachelor's degree

• Benchmark statement

• Biological hazard

• Briefing paper

• Clinical autonomy

• Clinical education

• Clinical education director/coordinator

• Clinical education site instructors

• Clinical governance

• Clinical guidelines

• Clinical reasoning/clinical decision making

• Clinical record

• Clinical sciences

• Clinical supervisor

• Codes of practice/conduct

• Collaborative practice

• Communication

• Community based rehabilitation, CBR

• Community services

• Competencies

• Competent authority

• Consultation

• Continuing education units

• Continuing professional development (CPD)

• Continuing professional education (CPE)

• Core academic faculty

• Core skills

• Cultural competence

• Curriculum development

• Declarations of principle

• Direct access

• Disaster preparedness

• Disaster prevention

• Disaster recovery

• Disciplinary panel/tribunal

• Documentation

• Dysfunction

• Educational Standards

• Endorsements

• Entry level physical therapist professional education programmes

• Environmental hazard

• Evaluation (clinical)

• Evidence based practice, EBP

• Examination

• Extended/ advanced scope of practice

• First contact practitioner

• Formal learning

• Geological hazard

• Global health

• Goals (clinical)

• Graduate diploma

• Guidelines (WCPT)

• Health human resources

• Health professions framework

• Health promotion

• Hydrometeorological hazard

• Independent practitioner

• Infectious diseases

• Informal learning

• Information Communication Technology (ICT)

• Information management

• Informed consent

• Instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)

• Interdisciplinary professional practice

• Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)

• International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

• Interprofessional education

• Intervention

• Law/statute

• Learning outcomes

• Learning theories

• Legislature/regulatory board/authority

• License/registration

• License/registration/regulation list

• Lifelong learning (LLL)

• Management autonomy

• Manipulation

• Manual handling

• Manual therapy techniques

• Master's degree

• Member organisation

• Mobilisation

• Multidisciplinary

• Natural hazard

• Non-discriminatory practice

• Non-formal learning

• Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO)

• Occupational health and safety

• Older people

• Participation

• Participation restrictions

• Physical activity

• Physical therapist professional entry level education programmes

• Physical therapy record

• Physical therapy speciality

• Physical therapy/physiotherapy

• Plan of care

• Policy statements

• Position statements

• Positive practice environments (PPE)

• Practice management

• Prescribe (practice)

• Prescribe (regulation)

• Primary health care

• Private practice

• Pro bono (publico)

• Problem solving

• Professional autonomy

• Professional conduct committee

• Professional doctorate

• Professional ethics

• Protection of title

• Qualification

• Quality assurance

• Quality enhancement

• Re-examination

• Reciprocity

• Recognition

• Referral procedures

• Registration

• Regulated profession

• Regulation of the profession

• Research doctorate

• Research ethics

• Scope of practice

• Secondary prevention

• Self-directed learning

• Self-referral

• Service standards

• Socio-natural hazard

• Specialisation

• Specialist physical therapist

• Standards of practice

• Support personnel

• Technological hazard

• Tertiary prevention

• Tests and measures

• Upper secondary

• WCPT awards

• WCPT Executive Committee (EC)

• WCPT member organisation (MO)

• WCPT networks

• WCPT policies

• WCPT subgroups

• Welfare services

• World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT)

• World Physical Therapy Congress (WPT congress)

• World Physical Therapy Day (WPT Day)

Updated: Tue 16 Apr 2013

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