Institut Supérieur de Rééducation Psychomotrice – Higher Institute for Psychomotor Reeducation (ISRP) offers Psychomotor Therapy (PMT) training that equips healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations with the knowledge and skills to offer a unique approach that addresses neurological dysfunctionalities. Incorporating this innovative approach can certify healthcare institutions to provide comprehensive, holistic care to their patients by catering to the needs of the mind and body.
Trainings available
- Types of doctors concerned:
- Paediatricians, child psychiatrists, psychiatrists, and geriatricians
- The goal of the training: understanding the psychomotor system and psychomotor disorders, their impact on patients, being able to diagnose them, and steer patients to a psychomotor therapist (PMT).
- Duration: 5 to 10 days (5-day modules)
- 3 specific specialities:
- Paediatrics
- Adult mental health
- Geriatrics
- Types of therapists concerned:
- Occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech therapists, psychologists
- The goal of the training: understanding the psychomotor system and psychomotor disorders, their impact on patients, being able to perform a psychomotor evaluation, and create a therapy plan adapted to each patient
- Duration: 15 to 25 days (5-day modules).
- 3 specific specialities:
- Paediatrics
- Adult mental health
- Geriatrics
- Types of education professionals concerned:
- teachers, resource teachers, child psychologists
- The goal of the training: understanding the psychomotor system specific to the learning process, psychomotor disorders and their impact on children, being able to identify signs of psychomotor difficulties to steer children to the right professional
- Duration: 10 to 15 days (5-day modules)
- The goal of the training: understanding the basis of the psychomotor approach (empathy, soft skills, adaptation to patients, non-verbal communication, helping elderlies to walk, falling prevention, dealing with complicated patient behavior, managing daily life activities with the elderly)
- Duration: 10 to 15 days (5-day modules)
- The goal of the training: psychomotor stimulation for the newborn baby, favoring a good psychomotor development, identifying early signs of delayed psychomotor development to steer parents to the right professional. This training also focuses on specific care towards premature babies
- Duration: 10 to 15 days (5-day modules)
Other trainings & certifications
Every other year, ISRP organises an International Summer School to unite Psychomotor Therapists (PMTs) from all over the world. More than 20 nationalities are present each time, to share the latest research and developments in PMT in their respective countries. The format varies from year to year but always includes scientific seminars and practice sessions.
All the training mentioned previously can be organised in Paris, and will include visits to specialised institutions to see PMTs in their everyday practice and better understand the specific role of these professions in French multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
By experience, it is easier to start with a Master’s degree in a country where PMT does not yet exist. This program can be offered at a University offering medicine, rehabilitation, psychology, nursing, midwifery, etc.
ISRP’s goal is to eventually create a PMT Bachelor’s program for the GCC region to get the profession of PMT fully recognized in the country.
ISRP and its partners can organise colloquiums with French and Arab experts to promote PMT.
