SPECIAL SERIES
Life and Health Care Transitions for Youth with Chronic Conditions: Implications for Physiotherapy
Guest Editors: Shauna Kingsnorth, PhD, and Barbara Gibson, PhD, PT

Shauna Kingsnorth is a Clinical Study Investigator, Bloorview Research Institute, and Evidence to Care Lead, Teaching & Learning Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. Barbara Gibson is the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation Chair in Childhood Disability Studies. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist, Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.

Children with disabilities and chronic conditions are living longer, and there is increased interest in designing interventions that will help youth transition to adulthood. Key transitions include not only the move from paediatric to adult health care services but also gradual changes in social roles and activities, such as completing high school, leaving the family home, and working. These transitions can take multiple forms and trajectories. Physiotherapy and rehabilitation have a key role to play in helping youth to maximize their physical, social, and psychological potential throughout their lives.

Over the next two years, Physiotherapy Canada will be running a special series of articles considering transitions for youth with chronic conditions or disabilities and the implications for physiotherapy. Topics of interest include

* Empirical evaluation of transitions models, programs, and services
* Youth and family experiences of transitions
* Critical engagement with transition theory
* Analyses of transition policies
* Global perspectives on transitions

Physiotherapy Canada is currently seeking submissions related to these or other pertinent topics. Qualitative or quantitative empirical studies are preferred, but high-quality commentaries or reviews (e.g., scoping, systematic) will be considered.

Submissions are requested now and throughout 2014, for publication in 2014-2016.
All submissions must follow the journal’s author guidelines and must be submitted to our online
peer review system PRESTO. Please find the guidelines here or on the “For Authors and Reviewers” page at www.utpjournals.com/ptc. To submit to PRESTO, please click here or visit http://physio.presto.utpjournals.com/jmanager/users/login.

If you have questions about the relevance of a project you are working on or require more detail, please contact

Shauna Kingsnorth
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