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Unit of Study CMM71001 - Health Promotion and Wellness (2017)

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Unit description

Introduces students to the concepts of lifestyle interventions that promote health and wellness, taking into account the physical, psychological, social and emotional wellbeing of the person.  This unit promotes the importance of the therapeutic relationship in promoting healthy lifestyles, including physical activity, good nutrition, and stress management.

Unit content

Topic 1: Understanding health and wellness behaviour

Topic 2: Chronic lifestyle-related diseases

Topic 3: The influence of nutrition in health and disease

Topic 4: The influence of physical activity in health and disease

Topic 5: The influence of psychological wellbeing in health and disease

Topic 6: The influence of other lifestyle factors including sleep, drug and alcohol use and environment

Topic 6: Understanding health and wellness promotion

Topic 7: Case studies in health promotion

Topic 8: Principles of wellness coaching and communication in the clinical setting

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Location Domestic International
Online Session 1 N/A

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 discuss the evidence for the role of nutrition, exercise, stress and other lifestyle factors in health and disease
2 identify a range of clinical interventions for the promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviours and the current evidence supporting these interventions
3 apply Australian guidelines (e.g. food guide references, physical activity – public health guidelines) and other public health initiatives to clinical practice
4 explore the principles and strategies for encouraging client/patient compliance with evidence-based lifestyle health promotion interventions

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

  1. discuss the evidence for the role of nutrition, exercise, stress and other lifestyle factors in health and disease
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
  2. identify a range of clinical interventions for the promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviours and the current evidence supporting these interventions
    • GA1:
  3. apply Australian guidelines (e.g. food guide references, physical activity – public health guidelines) and other public health initiatives to clinical practice
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  4. explore the principles and strategies for encouraging client/patient compliance with evidence-based lifestyle health promotion interventions
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:

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