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HUMA238 Lifestyle Facilitation 1

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Each semester is twelve weeks in length and is taught by distance education.

This is a practical unit where students apply their understanding of the concept of a quality lifestyle and of issues affecting people who require support due to age or disability. Historically, professionals have worked within a deficit framework of needs assessment, with an emphasis on what a person could not do. This unit presents alternate ways that lifestyle can be examined, emphasising the strengths of the person with a view to the persons future development as an individual. This unit provides students with opportunity to assist people concerning goals and lifestyles. It also examines the variety of roles the person assisting another may take on (expert, helper, carer and teacher) while facilitating a persons lifestyle in a positive and holistic way.

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