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Unit of Study NATM2003 - Massage and Mind-body Medicine (2022)

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    Students will be required to attend on-campus practical classes, and complete 80 hours of supervised massage therapy practice. This unit contains professional experience learning that require students to fulfil certain vaccination and compliance requirements prior to attending. As some of these can take up to 5 months to complete, you must prepare now. Failure to comply with these requirements will result in you being unable to undertake the stipulated Professional Experience Learning which may result in failure of the unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/healthplacements.

Unit description

Develops knowledge and skills required to administer safe and effective therapeutic massage, and to recommend selected evidence-based mind-body therapies, to healthy adults.

Unit content

  1. Therapeutic massage 1 - professional conduct and techniques
  2. Therapeutic massage 2 - torso, head and neck
  3. Therapeutic massage 3 - limbs
  4. Therapeutic massage 4 - full body
  5. Mind-body techniques 1
  6. Mind-body techniques 2

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Not currently available in 2022

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:

discuss professional conduct and safety within the context of therapeutic massage

apply therapeutic massage techniques to torso, head, neck and limbs

apply therapeutic massage techniques to full body

recommend appropriate mind-body techniques for healthy populations using the best available evidence