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Ethics is a systematic reflection on morality. Systematic because it is a discipline that uses special methods and approaches to examine moral situations and reflection because it consciously calls into question assumptions about existing components of moralities that fall into the category of habits, customs, or traditions.<ref>Purtilo 1999</ref> The term moral refers to a group of notions about what is right or wrong in connection with one's own or others' action.<ref>Aadland 2000</ref> | Ethics is a systematic reflection on morality. Systematic because it is a discipline that uses special methods and approaches to examine moral situations and reflection because it consciously calls into question assumptions about existing components of moralities that fall into the category of habits, customs, or traditions.<ref>Purtilo 1999</ref> The term moral refers to a group of notions about what is right or wrong in connection with one's own or others' action.<ref name=":0">Aadland 2000</ref> Physiotherapy in private practice must be considered both within an organizational frame and a frame of meaning.<ref>Thornquist, 2010</ref> The nature of the physiotherapy process includes examination, diagnostic assessment, evaluation, prognosis, plan of treatment, and re-examination in close interaction with the patient. From this follows that physiotherapy is relational.<ref>Schriver, 2004</ref> | ||
Physiotherapy in private practice must be considered both within an organizational frame and a frame of meaning.<ref>Thornquist, 2010</ref> The nature of the physiotherapy process includes examination, diagnostic assessment, evaluation, prognosis, plan of treatment, and re-examination in close interaction with the patient. From this follows that physiotherapy is relational.<ref>Schriver, 2004</ref> | |||
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Within the last four decades, the physiotherapy profession has experienced an increase in professional autonomy. An important aspect of professional autonomy is to have a prominent ethical dimension<ref>Carr 2000</ref> both collectively and for the individual members of the profession. The growing autonomy thereby increases the need for formal ethical considerations for physiotherapists and serves to focus more clearly on the individual physiotherapist's ethical competence: the ability to identify; to examine; to assess; and to decide in relation to the ethical issues in daily practice. The increased interest in ethical issues and dilemmas facing physiotherapists is, on one hand, reflected in the recent years of formal codifications of and guidelines for professional morality: The World Confederation of Physical Therapy has had a Code of Ethics since 1995 (WCPT, 2007); on the other hand, it is reflected in the increased amount of articles on the subject.<ref>Carpenter and Richardson, 2008</ref><ref>Swisher, 2002</ref> | |||
Ethical issues in physiotherapy can be : | |||
* about how to maintain a professional proximity in the close and, mostly, continued relationship between physiotherapist and patient where both physiotherapist and patient are being touched by one another, bodily, mentally, and emotionally<ref>Poulis, 2007a, 2007b</ref> without entering the personal sphere in which friendships occur. | |||
* about how to manage the given power asymmetry; the patient comes to the physiotherapist in a vulnerable state and since imbalance in knowledge, power, and authority is a condition, the physiotherapist must constantly be aware of the inherent vulnerability of the patient, even when there is a need to engage in a process of mutual partnership. | |||
* about how to communicate in a respectful manner with all clients regardless of age, level of education, ethnicity, or how to live up to the patients' right to self-determination and privacy during all aspects of the course<ref>Praestegaard, 2001</ref><ref>Potter, Gordon, and Hamer, 2003a, 2003b, 2003c</ref> | |||
* about ethical dilemmas- relational situations, filled with doubt and ambivalence; where the physiotherapist has to choose between action alternatives that will have negative consequences for the patient<ref name=":0" /> | |||
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Ethics is a systematic reflection on morality. Systematic because it is a discipline that uses special methods and approaches to examine moral situations and reflection because it consciously calls into question assumptions about existing components of moralities that fall into the category of habits, customs, or traditions.[1] The term moral refers to a group of notions about what is right or wrong in connection with one's own or others' action.[2] Physiotherapy in private practice must be considered both within an organizational frame and a frame of meaning.[3] The nature of the physiotherapy process includes examination, diagnostic assessment, evaluation, prognosis, plan of treatment, and re-examination in close interaction with the patient. From this follows that physiotherapy is relational.[4]
Ethics in Physiotherapy[edit | edit source]
Within the last four decades, the physiotherapy profession has experienced an increase in professional autonomy. An important aspect of professional autonomy is to have a prominent ethical dimension[5] both collectively and for the individual members of the profession. The growing autonomy thereby increases the need for formal ethical considerations for physiotherapists and serves to focus more clearly on the individual physiotherapist's ethical competence: the ability to identify; to examine; to assess; and to decide in relation to the ethical issues in daily practice. The increased interest in ethical issues and dilemmas facing physiotherapists is, on one hand, reflected in the recent years of formal codifications of and guidelines for professional morality: The World Confederation of Physical Therapy has had a Code of Ethics since 1995 (WCPT, 2007); on the other hand, it is reflected in the increased amount of articles on the subject.[6][7]
Ethical issues in physiotherapy can be :
- about how to maintain a professional proximity in the close and, mostly, continued relationship between physiotherapist and patient where both physiotherapist and patient are being touched by one another, bodily, mentally, and emotionally[8] without entering the personal sphere in which friendships occur.
- about how to manage the given power asymmetry; the patient comes to the physiotherapist in a vulnerable state and since imbalance in knowledge, power, and authority is a condition, the physiotherapist must constantly be aware of the inherent vulnerability of the patient, even when there is a need to engage in a process of mutual partnership.
- about how to communicate in a respectful manner with all clients regardless of age, level of education, ethnicity, or how to live up to the patients' right to self-determination and privacy during all aspects of the course[9][10]
- about ethical dilemmas- relational situations, filled with doubt and ambivalence; where the physiotherapist has to choose between action alternatives that will have negative consequences for the patient[2]
