Presented by: Todd E. Davenport, PT, DPT, MPH & Sean F. Griech, PT, DPT, COMT
Members: $49 | Non-Members: $79
The purpose of this session is to describe social justice, human rights, utilitarianism, and deontology in physical therapy, and to explain how we can work to shape our practice towards realizing our vision of transforming society. The talk will be framed around four proposed “big ideas”:
Big Idea #1: The APTA Code of ethics must affirm an individual’s right to be healthy.
Big Idea #2: The APTA Code of Ethics must focus our attention on the importance of prevention through movement system assessment and treatment rather than bury it in the fine print.
Big Idea #3: The APTA Code of Ethics must inculcate our profession’s commitment to address differences in health and health outcomes that are avoidable and then work to make all differences avoidable.
Big Idea #4: The APTA Code of Ethics must emphasize the core belief that physical therapists act to ameliorate or eliminate the root causes of movement system dysfunction including social, political, and economic root causes.
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