Pediatric Rehab: Perspectives on Children, Families and their Environment - Part 1 (RH1402)

Course Format

This course is online. All course material is available online and is accessible immediately after purchase from your account homepage. Certificate of Completion is available immediately upon passing the exam.

Course Overview

Course Objectives

1. Explain the criteria for quality community-based services and the organizational factors that affect these systems


2. Discuss how families function and the forces that lead to family dysfunction - within the context of the following major themes:
   1. structural-functional
   2. developmental
   3. stress
   4. systems theory


3. Define and explain:
   1. Health
   2. Wellness
   3. the four foci for prevention of disease and injury


4. Discuss the barriers to optimal health care and explain the sequence of activities in the screening and assessment process


5. List and describe:
   1. four measures of disability
   2. functional assessment instruments for children
   


6. Discuss how the environments of home, school and the community work to impact children and their families - especially those children who require specialized care and services