Students develop communication and counselling skills required to support nutrition-related behavioural change in individual and group settings. Students will apply interviewing, counselling, and group education techniques, including using interpreters, along with technology and digital health innovations to support behavioural change. This unit will explore telecommunication technologies (telehealth) to support clinical long-distance health care, patient and professional education and nonclinical applications including meetings, educational sessions, forums, case conferencing and mentoring. Communication and complexity of working within culturally-diverse communities and multi-disciplinary professional teams will also be addressed.
This unit includes a 5-day compulsory intensive at CDU Casuarina campus following teaching period at the end of the Semester.
PRESCRIBED TEXT- COMMUNICATING NUTRITION: THE AUTHORITATIVE GUIDE
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