The Fixer-Upper: Using Backward Design, Transformative Learning Theory, and Innovation to Renovate a Psychosocial Course
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The Fixer-Upper: Using Backward Design, Transformative Learning Theory, and Innovation to Renovate a Psychosocial Course
Description:
Many of us have moved into a home, lived in it for some time, then recognized that major renovations are needed for the home to meet our needs for the foreseeable future. In this session, a teaching team willdescribe its experience with their program’s fixer-upper – the Psychosocial Aspects of Patient Care course. The team will describe their experience with the course and its subtle changes from 2017 to 2019, the significant structural changes that were unexpectedly needed from 2020 to 2022, then the long-desired renovation that was implemented in 2023. The team will describe how they determined the redesign was
necessary, what short-term solutions were utilized, and how backward curricular design and transformative learning theory were used to meet long-term needs of the program, its faculty, and its students. The team will share examples of their course objectives, session objectives, course content, assessment strategies, and student feedback. Participants will be equipped to update their own Psychosocial course content or translate learning of backward design and transformative learning theory to other courses.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the need for curricular innovation in physical therapist professional education programs to support learners and equip them for careers in healthcare
- Apply the principles of (a) course design and (b) backward curricular design for cultivating learner-centered teaching
- Describe how transformative learning theory can be used to help learners have (a) changed perspectives of how they understand themselves and (b) shifted worldviews, including the condition of healthcare
Level:
Basic and Intermediate
Speakers:
Emily Hawkins, PT, DPT, PhD
Emily Hawkins is a native of eastern North Carolina. She earned her BS in Exercise Physiology at East Carolina University in 2010 and her Doctor of Physical Therapy from Old Dominion University in 2013. She has been inducted into the Alpha Eta Honor Society, and she has consistently been engaged in professional service through the APTA at district and chapter levels. She currently serves as President-Elect for APTA Virginia and the Treasurer for the Mid-Atlantic Consortium of Physical Therapy Clinical Education, Inc. In 2021, she was hired as Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education for Old Dominion University's Doctor of Physical Therapy program. In 2023, Emily was selected as APTA Virginia's "Emerging Leader" award recipient. Emily earned her PhD in Kinesiology & Rehabilitation at ODU in August 2023. Emily lives with her family in Chesapeake, VA.
Korrin Vanderhoof, LCSW
Korrin Vanderhoof is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with fifteen years of experience working in various mental health settings including community service, education, research, and private practice. She currently owns and operates her own private practice, Sunrise Counseling and Wellness, and is the former director of one of the largest counseling practices in the Hampton Roads area.
Korrin’s clinical experience includes working with clients across the life span with a wide range of concerns from day to day stress, to trauma and grief, to somatic conditions and the mind body connection. Her experience in building a large, successful practice from the ground up has also given her the unique perspective of identifying what it takes to create an organizational environment that fosters safety, support, growth, and healing for both the clients served as well as her employees.
While maintaining her clinical practice, Korrin also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Old Dominion University and has assisted in conducting clinical education research. She is also passionate about broadening her understanding of novel approaches to mental health treatment including mindfulness based, somatic, and psychedelic assisted treatment approaches.
Hannah Todd, PT, DPT
Hannah Todd has been practicing as a physical therapist for 10 years. She has a wide range of patient experience, from inpatient skilled nursing with a focus on dementia care to outpatient pelvic floor and neurologic rehabilitation. She currently practices outpatient neurologic rehabilitation with socially complex patients, as well as outpatient pelvic floor for all genders. She is passionate about building a strong therapeutic alliance with each patient as an individual in order to maximize outcomes and patient satisfaction, and loves bringing her clinical experiences directly to DPT students as part of the team that teaches Psychosocial Aspects of Patient Care. Outside the clinic and the classroom, Hannah is a mom to two boys and can usually be found outside supervising stuffed animal tree rescues and refereeing scooter races.