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Presentation of PMT and ISRP in view of a second training session in collaboration with ZHO
About Psychomotor Therpay
Psychomotor Therapy (PMT) is a rehabilitation therapy the originated from a French physical therapist, Giselle Soubiran, at the beginning to the 1950s, at the Henri Roussel Sainte-Anne Children Psychiatry hospital in Paris.
Soubiran worked with a Child Psychiatrist named Julian de Ajuriaguerra. Both were convinced that uniting the body and the mind, through a specific type of rehabilitation, would bring tremendous added value to rehabilitation. Soubiran used a concept called “psychomotricity”, found in the German written literature as of the 1850s, but never applied clinically. She studied a group of children that had a high IQ, but learning difficulties at school, a situation labelled as incoherent by psychiatrists at the time. Yet, as Soubiran strongly believed that inclusion was the most important part of care and rehabilitation, she decided to dedicate 10 years to properly understand why these children had such difficulties learning, despite their high IQ. She published her first findings and results in 1960, comprising of a precise definition of what a psychomotor disorder is and how it affects learning abilities, a first set of evaluation tools and rehabilitation techniques to improve psychomotor skills.
In 1967, along with her son José Soubiran, she opened the first school dedicated to psychomotor therapy training in order to spread her findings, named ISRP, French acronym of Higher Institute for Psychomotor Therapy. From the beginning, the goal was to work with the French Ministry of Health in order to get a diploma recognized, which happened in 1974 when the State created the State Degree of Psychomotor Therapist, under the authority of the Ministry of Health, awarded after a 3-year higher education program.
In 1988, the French Ministry of Health published a competency decree, lawfully protecting rehabilitation tehcniques that only licences psychomotor therapists could perform.
In 1995, PMT became an Allied Health Profession in France, and as of the year 2000, PMT was included in a wide range of National Healthcare Plans.
Throughout the years, the legal scope of action of PMT was greatly widened, including but not limited to:
- Specific needs of premature babies
- Neurodevelopmental disorders (learning disorders, ASD, ADHD, etc.), including their prevention and early detection
- Cerebral Palsy
- Mental health issues at all ages and stages (stress, anxiety, depression, psychosocial risks, eating disorders, addictions, PTSD, paranoia, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, etc.)
- Neurological conditions (brain and spinal trauma, stroke, neurodegenerative disorders)
- Neurodegenerative disorders from ageing (Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, dementia, etc.), including their prevention and early detection
Today, PMT exists in around 40 countries around the world, and keep on expanding its reach year by year.
About ISRP
ISRP is hence the pioneer, and leading institute in PMT around the world. It not only the first historic PMT school, it also helped structure the profession in France and internationally. In 1979, ISRP created the International Organization for Psychomotor Therapy and Relaxation (OIPR as per the French acronym) so as to spread the science worldwide and standardize the profession at an international level.
ISRP is also the biggest PMT school in the world, with 4 campuses in France: Paris, Marseille, Vichy and Metz, teaching over 1500 students every year.
Today, over half of French psychomotor therapists have been trained by ISRP, and about 25% of worldwide psychomotor therapists have followed their training in partnership with ISRP.
ISRP is fully accredited by the French Ministries of Health and Higher Education to train licensed psychomotor therapist, and also holds an ISO9001:2015 certification.
In 2015, ISRP opened a first branch outside of France, located in Shanghai, China. The objective was to develop PMT in China. Over the years, over 5000 Chinese healthcare professionals have been trained by ISRP itself. Cooperations range from public call for tenders by provincial and municipal governments, partnerships with national professional organization such as the Chinese Association for Rehabilitation Medicine, with highly esteemed hospitals amongst which the 2 top mental health hospitals (Beijing University 6th Hospital and Shanghai Mental Health Center), or the People’s Liberation Army General Hospital (top military hospital in China), to name a few.
In 2022, ISRP signed an MoU with the Uzbek Ministry of Health to develop the profession in the country, this cooperation was since added to the modernization plan of the Uzbek healthcare system.
In 2023, ISRP received the outstanding achievement award from Rehabilitation International during RI’s centennial celebration in Beijing, China.
In 2023, ISRP signed an MoU with the National Pediatric Rehabilitation Center in Astana, Kazakhstan, as part of the Presidential visit of Mr Macron to his counterpart President Tokaiev.
Training proposal as part of the collaboration with ZHO
With the common goal of spreading new and innovative rehabilitation approaches in order to provide better care for people of determination, ISRP and ZHO have decided to launch a first training together in Abu Dhabi, during the 2024 Rehabilitation International World Congress hosted by ZHO.
This training took place from September 21st to 25th 2020, and will focused on the specific approach in PMT for ASD.
The training was a great success, and ZHO and ISRP agreed to hold another session on the same content, from January 31st to February 5th 2025 (6 days).
As the first training, this session will focus on the framework used in PMT detailing the neurological and body functions comprising the psychomotor system, and the underlying synergies that operate it. A first introduction to evaluation of the PMT system will enable participants to start understanding how ASD affects psychomotricity, and lay the ground for a future second session focused on thorough evaluation and psychomotor rehabilitation for children with ASD.
ZHO and ISRP aim at organizing a second session in 2025, for the participants of the first two sessions, in order to further deepen their understanding of PMT, and their skills to care for children with ASD. The date of this second training should be announced first quarter of 2025.
Target audience: healthcare professionals in the field of rehabilitation that work with ASD patients.
Training language: English. All participants must be proficient in English, yet the training being Lebanese, she can translate some technical terms into Arabic if need be.
Cost: 3500 AED/participant for the 6 day-session (half price for ZHO staff)
Registration and payment link: https://buy.stripe.com/00g03X3hSccC3hS28e
Maximum number of participants: 30
Location: ZHO Headquarters: Shk. Maktoum Bin Rashid Rd - Shakhbout City - MSH44 - Abu Dhabi - UAE
Requirements for location: I will put you in contact with the trainer who did the first training in September so she can give you more details about the specific requirements and adaptation based on the previous training.
Accreditation: DOH CME hours (35h, TBC)
