Master i helsefag Marit Sørvoll disputerer for ph.d.-graden i helsevitenskap og vil offentlig forsvare avhandlingen:
“Supervision in pediatric physiotherapy: an ambiguous distinction between treatment and supervision. A qualitative explorative study using observations and interviews”
Kort sammendrag av avhandlingen:
Supervision of non-professionals has become an integrated part of current practice in pediatric physiotherapy in primary health care. Limited knowledge exists regarding the content, organization and achievements of such practice. In this doctoral project, we explored supervision in the field of physiotherapy services for preschool children with CP. Most often these children have a personal aide responsible for the daily follow-up under the supervision of a physiotherapist (PT). We aimed to identify characteristic features for supervision as a clinical practice and collected data via video-recorded observations of supervision sessions, observations and video-recorded sequences of aides’ work day and individual interviews with PTs and aides.
Our results demonstrated that supervision in pediatric physiotherapy comprises temporal and transformative processes of knowing that extend beyond the mere linguistic. PTs perceived supervision as a complex process due to the many contingencies that occurred. They also highlighted that they transformed their professional jargon into everyday language to enhance the aides’ understanding., When supervising, the PTs used three supervision approaches, in which the PTs addressed both the child and the aide in a combination of dyadic and triadic interactions. The aides’ work wasalso characterized by temporal and transformative processes, emphasizing that the application of knowledge is not a mere transfer of knowledge within and between contexts; the aides transformed insights rather than applyingthem directly.
Veiledere
Hovedveileder professor Gunn Kristin Øberg
Biveileder professor Aud Obstfelder
Biveileder førsteamanuensis Britt Normann
Bedømmelseskomiteen
Førsteamanuensis Anne Brødsgaard Madsen, Aarhus Universitet, Danmark – 1. opponent
Professor Ottar Ness, NTNU – 2. opponent
Førsteamanuensis Ellen Berit Nordal, UiT Norges arktiske universitet – leder av komité
Disputasleder Instituttleder Nina Emaus, Institutt for helse- og omsorgsfag, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet
Prøveforelesning over oppgitt emne holdes kl. 10.15, samme sted: “Hva er og hvordan omsettes familiesentrert omsorg og behandling i pediatrisk fysioterapi og supervisjon?”