In this 3-part webinar series Sarah and Andra will explore the benefits of an integrative approach to the complex patient that puts understanding stress at the core of caregiving. Part one dives into the science of stress - the nuances of stress physiology, health effects of chronic stress, biobehavioral coping mechanisms, and the social determinants of health. Part two advocates for shifts in PT assessments and interventions that we can implement when we see our patients through the lens of stress science. This approach is aligned with the principles of trauma-informed care and biopsychosocial models. Part three discusses barriers to adopting this approach, opportunities for the PT profession to implement integrative models, and important boundaries and self-care for practitioners taking on comprehensive caregiving.

Interested in the full series - click here.

Learning Objectives:

1. Construct rationale for an integrative approach to care of the complex patient

2. Summarize stress physiology and its relevance to clinical PT practice

3. Evaluate how positive, tolerable, and toxic stress impact clinical PT practice

4. Analyze protective and risk factors for stress related sequelae

5. Explore the applicability of the ACEs Study to clinical PT practice

6. Explain allostatic load and its relevance to clinical PT practice

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

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Implicit associations are subconscious connections made between mental representations of objects and concepts in one’s memory. All conscious human brains make these associations. We form these associations as a result of our experiences, including our background and our exposure to mass media. These associations may foster positive, negative, or ambivalent feelings towards other individuals based on their outward characteristics, but they do not necessarily result in biased behavior.

Importantly, health professionals who are unaware of their biases may unintentionally cause harm to their patients via differences in the delivery of the care they provide. It is important for health professionals to recognize and confront any biases they may have that could become a barrier to providing optimal patient care. Patients commonly discussed in the literature as being the victims of clinicians’ implicit biases are those with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) or from historically-marginalized racial groups.

Confronting one’s implicit biases may afford clinicians an avenue through which to mitigate the negative impact of their biases. This is challenging, however, as traditional discussions of bias in a classroom setting are often intimidating to participants due to fear of judgment. This course will provide an opportunity for participants to address the implicit biases they may have regarding patients with SUD or from historically-marginalized racial groups. Ultimately, this course is designed to allow clinicians to privately reflect upon and acknowledge their implicit biases, with the hope of starting them down the path of conscious, meaningful change to providing more equitable care.

Learning Objectives:

1. Differentiate implicit bias from implicit associations within a personal and clinical context.

2. Acknowledge that racial and clinical biases may be operating in the clinical setting.

3. Recognize the impact of stigma on the care of patients with opioid use disorders.

4. Select appropriate tools to screen patients for substance use disorders and for post-surgical pain risk.

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

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For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

Health and illness are shaped by social conditions and the structural forces that shape these conditions. As a result, historically excluded and underserved communities disproportionately carry the burden of many acute and chronic conditions. Population health represents an approach to 1) understanding systematic disparities in health outcomes and the inter-related factors that shape health over time and 2) leveraging this information to inform interventions, programs, and policies. To be successful, this approach must acknowledge social inequities, elevate community voices, and produce actionable knowledge. The purpose of this webinar is to describe a population-based approach, grounded in emancipatory research, to improving the health of historically excluded and underserved communities.    

Learning Objectives

1. Differentiate individual, social, and structural determinants of health

2. Describe structural medicine and examine the role of PTs in identifying and addressing social needs

3. Summarize the principles underlying emancipatory research

4. Define population health and consider the use of population-based approaches in eliminating health disparities. 

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

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For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

The process for ensuring that the needs of customers and clients with disabilities are met begins before they make their first contact with your organization – and carries through until they leave.  From how to create awareness of your organization, to how people with disabilities get there, to how accessibility is ensured at every step of the way, takes not just great planning, but sustained effort.  This course will share the tips and tricks used by some Federal agencies that serve millions of people with disabilities annual to ensure that experiences are accessible from entry to exit for a wide range of disabilities.    

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the components of an "entry to exit" experience

2. Understand the barriers to look for based on different disabilities

3. Learn tools and resources for barrier mitigation

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

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For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

This presentation explores microaggressions and implicit bias of race/ethnicity, privilege, power and ableism that occur in education, academe, the workplace, and in clinical practice.  Descriptions and examples of the types of microaggressions are provided.  The perspective of targets, or microaggressees; perpetrators, or microaggressors; bystanders; and, allies is presented.  Strategies for eliminating microaggressions and implicit bias are provided that pertain to microaggressees, microaggressor, bystanders and allies.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Describe microaggressions and the types of microagressions

2. Explain the impact of implicit bias and microaggressions on targets

3. Formulate a plan to eliminate microaggressions

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

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Through a highly self-reflective approach, participants will learn about identity, privilege, bias, and allyship as foundational pillars to understanding how to achieve DEI. Participants will engage in self-reflection throughout the series to apply concepts to their clinical and personal lives with the overall goal of creating more respectful and inclusive environments.

NOTE: All 3 parts must be completed sequentially in order to receive CEUs.

Part 1: Unconscious Bias in the Health Professions

A large part of advancing EDI is understanding our biases. Exploring unconscious bias is a critical starting point to understanding structural inequity and why some maintain power and influence and others are held back, despite our best intentions. Participants learn where individual unconscious biases come from and how they collectively manifest to continue advantaging some and disadvantaging others. Participants explore their own biases and how to start mitigating the negative effects of those biases.

Learning Objectives

1. What unconscious bias is and where it comes from

2. How it plays out in our lives and effects personal and professional decision-making, especially in healthcare settings

3. How to mitigate the effects of unconscious bias

Part 2: Power, Privilege and Microaggressions

The second part of this series presents foundational information on identity, power, and privilege to understand how some identities hold more or less power and privilege in society, and in clinical settings. Identities that carry more power create dominant cultures in society, which both intentionally and unintentionally oppress or disadvantage others, often in the form of microaggressions. Participants learn that a culture of respect and accountability is created and maintained through everyday acts of allyship, small and large, and explore how these can be integrated into the clinical environment.

Learning Objectives

1. Reflect on one's various identities

2. Learn which identities carry more power and create dominant cultures

3. Understand how bias, identity, and privilege manifest as microaggressive behavior and comments towards others

Part 3: Responding to Microaggressions through Allyship

Equity and inclusion can thrive and grow when everyone plays a part in creating respectful and safe environments. This workshop continues exploring concepts related to allyship and how participants can support those around them. It presents allyship and bystander intervention frameworks to engage participants in thinking about how they can intervene in situations where harm is occurring. Participants gather both bystander intervention skills as well as generate ideas for how to institutionalize allyship behaviors for maximum impact.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand authentic allyship traits and practices through ally frameworks.

2. Explore responding to microaggressions as an ally.

3. Discover bystander intervention strategies to reduce harm.

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recordings.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

This 3-part webinar series will explore the benefits of an integrative approach to the complex patient that puts understanding stress at the core of caregiving. Part one dives into the science of stress - the nuances of stress physiology, health effects of chronic stress, biobehavioral coping mechanisms, and the social determinants of health. Part two advocates for shifts in PT assessments and interventions that we can implement when we see our patients through the lens of stress science. This approach is aligned with the principles of trauma-informed care and biopsychosocial models. Part three discusses barriers to adopting this approach, opportunities for the PT profession to implement integrative models, and important boundaries and self-care for practitioners taking on comprehensive caregiving.

Interested in the whole series - click here.

Learning Objectives

1. Construct rationale for an integrative approach to care of the complex patient

2. Summarize stress physiology and its relevance to clinical PT practice

3. Evaluate how positive, tolerable, and toxic stress impact clinical PT practice

4.Analyze protective and risk factors for stress related sequelae

5. Explore the applicability of the ACEs Study to clinical PT practice

6. Explain allostatic load and its relevance to clinical PT practice

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

Across the United States, there has been an increase in diversity education and investment. Many organizations, including the APTA, have invested significant time, money, and resources into furthering their diversity initiatives. Given this investment, it is crucial to understand the differential effects that diversity may have on outcomes and how it can be managed most effectively. This course will introduce physical therapy professionals to the concept of Diversity Climate and its relationship to positive organizational outcomes. It will also provide participants with practical suggestions for how to implement these constructs into practice.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe factors that may undermine diversity efforts

2. Define Diversity Climate and describe how it offers a solution to diversity management 

3. Utilize Diversity Climate research to generate workplace interventions for better diversity management

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

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The goal of this session is to advance institutional efforts in creating a diverse and inclusive culture and atmosphere for everyone- patients and staff alike, to drive clinical, educational, research and service excellence in physical therapy. 

Learning Objectives: 

After completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Understand the current demographics within the PT industry
2. Know why cultural diversity is important to clinical care
3. Define key terms used in the discussion of DEI and cultural competency
4. Understand LGBTQIA+ cultural competence research results
5. Become an Ally and Upstander
6. Implement Tangible Take Home Solutions to Improve Your Clinical Environment

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

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For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org. 

This course explores clinical decision-making and reasoning strategies for working with diverse patient populations. You'll examine cultural competence, responsiveness, and implicit bias, while applying The Guide to Physical Therapist Practice Patient Management Model and the International Classification of Function (ICF) Model to enhance clinical reasoning. Topics include health disparities, social determinants of health, and strategies for delivering culturally appropriate care.

Key Features:

• Develop clinical decision-making skills for diverse patient populations.
• Apply ICF and Patient Management Models to practice.
• Recognize how biases impact patient care and outcomes.
• Explore health disparities and social determinants of health.
• Enhance patient-centered communication for more effective treatment.

Purchase Information:

• Free for students and members
• $90 for non-members

Earn Credit:

• 0.2 CEU or 2 contact hours

Earn continuing education credits while improving your ability to provide inclusive, patient-centered care.

Course Instructions

1. Click on the Contents tab to watch the course recording.
2. Click the Take Quiz button to complete the assessment. Learners will have 3 attempts to pass and must answer at least 70% of questions correctly.
3. Click Fill Out Survey under the Evaluation listing to provide valuable course feedback. Scroll down on all questions as there may be answer options that expand past the size of the window.
4. Click the View/Print Your Certificate button under the Certificate listing. You can view/print your certificate at any time by visiting the APTA Learning Center and clicking the CEU Certificate/Transcript link on the left-hand side of the page. 

Need Assistance?

For assistance logging in, accessing activities, claiming credit, or for other questions or concerns, please e-mail learningcenter@apta.org.