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Unit of Study CMM03379 - Self-Management and Lifestyle Medicine (2016)

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Unit description

Builds on a number of units within the Lifestyle Medicine specialisation and provides the key skills from evidence-based research and reflective practice for assisting the motivation of clients/patients and their health literacy in order to self manage their own chronic diseases.

Unit content

Topic 1. Chronic Disease Self-Management (CDSM) in Lifestyle Medicine: Rationale and background

  • Why self-management
  • Lifestyle medicine and self-management
  • Self-management strategies and models
  • A structure for self management

Topic 2. The endothelium, inflammation and chronic disease: A basis for self-management

  • Modern changes in disease orientation
  • Obesity as a case study in chronic disease
  • 'Anthropogens' and inflammation

Topic 3. Approaches to CDSM: 1. Being client-centred

  • The implications for counselling
  • The implications for the health practice
  • The implications for health outcomes

Topic 4. Approaches to CDSM: 2. Being motivation focused

  • The implications for counselling
  • The implications for the health practice
  • The implications for health outcomes

Topic 5. Approaches to CDSM: 3. Being health literacy oriented

  • The implications for counselling
  • The implications for the health practice
  • The implications for health outcomes

Topic 6. Type 2 diabetes and self-management

  • Self-management and Type 2 diabetes
  • Health behaviour theories and diabetes self-management
  • Self-management for diabetes - the evidence

Availabilities

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 explain the physiological basis of chronic disease and its relevance to self-management
2 use evidence-based patient self-management models for clients with chronic disease
3 design chronic disease self-management strategies by encouraging and supporting the move towards client-centred approaches
4 utilise evidence-based self-management, health coaching and counselling skills
5 promote health literacy and its importance to self-management approaches
6 construct self-management principles to weight control and type II diabetes management
7 synthesise whole of practice change management principles needed to implement self-management approaches in primary care practice.

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

  1. explain the physiological basis of chronic disease and its relevance to self-management
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  2. use evidence-based patient self-management models for clients with chronic disease
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  3. design chronic disease self-management strategies by encouraging and supporting the move towards client-centred approaches
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  4. utilise evidence-based self-management, health coaching and counselling skills
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  5. promote health literacy and its importance to self-management approaches
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  6. construct self-management principles to weight control and type II diabetes management
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  7. synthesise whole of practice change management principles needed to implement self-management approaches in primary care practice.
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