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Podiatry: A Psychosocial Approach

In todays society podiatrists need to learn and appreciate the complexity of their patients’ needs, that are sometimes far beyond the pathology that prompts their podiatry visit.

Allied health professionals also need to understand the magnitude of the impact such factors, including mental health issues, have on our patients.

The quality of professional-patient relationships is very important in achieving positive clinical outcomes and to accept that our patients’ values, beliefs and priorities may be very different from our own or what may be “best” for our patients’ podiatric condition.

However this is not always emphasised to podiatrists when they are studying and learning how to be “foot specialists”. A lot of these psychosocial strategies come from on the job experience and years of dealing with patients.

Which is why I would like to introduce an e-book that has been specifically designed for podiatry students – Podiatry: A Psychosocial Approach.

Podiatry: A Psychosocial Approach

This book aims to introduce podiatry students to some important psychosocial concepts that may influence and improve their clinical practice and enhance clinical reasoning by better understanding their patients’ needs.

If this book was introduced during their university years, it may better prepare them for the working world and the idea that the feet are attached to a real person who may have more complex needs than just their foot pathologies.

At Proactive Podiatry our clinical podiatry staff have been practicing for over 5 years and have had a lot of experience in many aspects of podiatry.

We are skilled in dealing with a range of patients from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds who all have different values, beliefs and priorities.

 

 

 
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