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Unit of Study CMM03255 - Lifestyle Medicine and Professional Practice (2016)

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Unit description

Builds on the units CMM03254 - Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine, CMM03256 - Motivation and Compliance in Lifestyle Medicine and CMM03257 - Psychological and Environmental Influences in Lifestyle Medicine and the key skills of evidence-based research and reflective practice to incorporate the approaches of lifestyle medicine within students' professional practice.

Unit content

Topic 1: Behavioural biology of lifestyle-based aetiologies
Topic 2: The positive psychology movement
Topic 3: Working with allied health professionals
Topic 4: Medication: getting the right balance
Topic 5: Examining 'medial' causes: reducing common injuries
Topic 6: Examining 'distal' causes: taking lifestyle medicine into the community.

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Location Domestic International
Online Session 1,  2,  3 Session 1,  2,  3

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 critically analyse the fundamental goals and principles of positive psychology
2 evaluate the effectiveness of allied health professional teams in the contexts of lifestyle medicine and positive psychology
3 judge when and how to refer clients
4 discuss the iatrogenic effects of certain medications and positive alternatives to their use
5 develop tools for use in professional practice that can foster supportive communities and assist professionals and their clients to build on their human strengths and attributes.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. critically analyse the fundamental goals and principles of positive psychology
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  2. evaluate the effectiveness of allied health professional teams in the contexts of lifestyle medicine and positive psychology
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  3. judge when and how to refer clients
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  4. discuss the iatrogenic effects of certain medications and positive alternatives to their use
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  5. develop tools for use in professional practice that can foster supportive communities and assist professionals and their clients to build on their human strengths and attributes.
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    • GA6:

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