PT school gives you the science. What to actually do, when a two-year-old will not cooperate, a parent is watching your every move, and your CI is waiting for you to take the lead, comes on rotation. The Pediatric PT Playbook was written for that exact moment.
This is not a textbook. It is the clinical companion you wish existed before day one of your pediatric rotation.
What is inside
- Frameworks for clinical reasoning across outpatient, school-based, NICU, acute care, and home health
- What your CI actually expects, and how to deliver it confidently
- How to write pediatric goals that make sense in real settings
- Family communication strategies that do not make you sound like a robot
- Red flags, movement quality, and symmetry analysis, explained for clinical use
- SOAP documentation and educationally relevant goal writing done right
14 clinical reasoning frameworks
The trademarked frameworks at the core of the Playbook, one shared language for the decisions you make across every setting.
- QFF™
- ACCESS™
- ALERT™
- ASK™
- BRAIN™
- F.O.C.U.S.™
- MAPS™
- MOVE™
- MOVE-S™
- PARTNER™
- PLAY™
- SAFE KIDS™
- TEACH™
- VOICE™
From both an educator's and clinician's perspective, The Pediatric PT Playbook offers a well-structured overview of various pediatric sectors. It effectively integrates the child, their family, and the impact of the environment in participation, aligning perfectly with the ICF-CY framework. By presenting a clear sequence of core concepts, it serves as an essential resource for helping students understand further responsible clinical decision-making in pediatric practice.
This is not a dense textbook it's a practical guide you can actually use before and during a pediatric rotation for any clinical setting. The book is organized in a way that mirrors real training and covers the real stuff students worry about. If you're preparing for a pediatric clinical rotation - or supporting a student who is - this book is worth having.
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$49 for the PDF. Less than one textbook chapter at the campus bookstore.
Buy the PDF on PayhipAlso on Amazon, from $39.99: Kindle, paperback, or hardcover.
Want more practice after the Playbook? The Case Handbook is 8 full worked cases with worksheets and an answer key, $59. Or take the Playbook, the Instructor Edition and the Rotation guide together in the Clinical Educator Set for $139.
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Get the free Pediatric PT Equipment & Orthotics Field Guide, a seven-page slice of the Playbook, and see how it reads.
