Physiotherapy in School Health Services for Adolescents – Perspectives and Practice

Introduction: Today there is an expressed concern for children’s and adolescent health, and the fact that many students do not complete highschool. In order to meet these challenges, school health services need to be strengthened and multidiciplinary teams developed. Main part: Describing the heal...th challenges of adolescents today, and also different understandings of body and health, we discuss, based on a phenomenological perspective, physiotherapists’ possible understanding and competence in meeting young people’s health challenges. Bodily expressions can be said to be characterized by contradictions, which cannot be reduced to a simple question of inactivity and obesity. What possibilities can be given to youth, enabling them to live their bodies changing towards adulthood, – and how can physiotherapists contribute to this process? Conclusion: What opportunities can be given in order to enable young people to live their changing bodies towards adulthood? How can physiotherapists contribute to this process? In our opinion, physiotherapists’ knowledge about body and movement related to experiences, health, participation and function in the broadest sense, is a way of strengthening the multidisciplinary team in school health care, both in prevention and health promoti Ausführliche Beschreibung Beschreibung ausblenden

1. Person:	Alette Ottesen verfasserin
Weitere Personen:	Gro Askland Øyehaug verfasserin; Wenche Schrøder Bjorbækmo verfasserin
Quelle:	In Fysioterapeuten (01.04.2016) Weitere Artikel
Format:	Online-Artikel
Sprache:	German English Norwegian (Bokmal) Swedish
Veröffentlicht:	2016
Beschreibung:	Online-Ressource
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