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Unit of Study HLTH5008 - Principles and Practice of Integrative Health Care: Foundations (2023)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Pre-requisites

    Nil

  • Co-requisites

    Nil

  • Anti-requisites

    Nil

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Introduces students to the discipline of integrative medicine and concept of integrative healthcare. The unit discusses integrative models of care and clinical reasoning within these contexts, while also developing practitioner’s skills to facilitate patient behaviour change and self-care

Unit content

  1. Introduction and principles of integrative medicine and integrative healthcare.
  2. Clinical reasoning in integrative medicine.
  3. Models of care in integrative medicine and integrative healthcare.
  4. Practitioner self-care.
  5. Self-management and behaviour change 1
  6. Self-management and behaviour change 2

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online
Term4
Term4

Learning outcomes

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:

examine the discipline and practice of integrative medicine

examine clinical reasoning in integrative medicine, within the context of different models of care

analyse approaches to monitor and support practitioner health and wellbeing

critically discuss self-management theory, health behaviour change and readiness to change

Prescribed learning resources

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