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Not offered in 2018
Unit description
Provides students with knowledge to enable patients to self-manage lifestyle and environmentally related chronic diseases in partnership with a lifestyle medicine practitioner.
Unit content
- Chronic Disease Self-Management (CDSM) in Lifestyle Medicine
- Physiological Basis for Self Management
- Inflammation, anthropogens and chronic disease: A basis for self- management
- Approaches to CDSM: 1. Being Client-Centred
- Approaches to CDSM: 2. Being Motivation Focused
- Approaches to CDSM: 3. Being Health Literacy Oriented
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.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain the physiological basis of chronic disease and its relevance to self-management | Creativity | ||||||
| 2 | use evidence-based patient self-management models for clients with chronic disease | Creativity | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | ||||
| 3 | design chronic disease self-management strategies by encouraging and supporting the move towards client-centred approaches | Creativity | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | ||||
| 4 | apply evidence-based self-management, health coaching and counselling skills | Creativity | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 5 | promote health literacy and its importance to self-management approaches | Communication and social skills | Cultural competence | |||||
| 6 | construct self-management principles to weight control and type II diabetes management | Creativity | Cultural competence | |||||
| 7 | synthesise whole of practice change management principles needed to implement self-management approaches in primary care practice | Creativity | Cultural competence | |||||
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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Commencing 2018 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 2
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