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HS322 Complementary Therapies in the Health Care System

Updated: 19 October 2011
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Trimester 2 Off Campus
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites None
Co-requisites None
Restrictions HS422
Notes None
Combined Units HS422 - Complementary Therapies in the Health Care System
Coordinator(s) Judy Humphries (jharris2@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit examines the role and development of complementary therapies in the context of the Australian health care system. It explores a variety of alternative and/or complementary therapies; in doing so it engages with the cultural, social and regulatory changes which lie behind the development of a growing market of alternative therapies. The contemporary debates and conflicts over these therapies within and between various groups of health professionals such as doctors, nurses, pharmacists and others are discussed with reference to the broader social, economic and health implications of the alternative/ complementary therapies movement.

Materials Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. demonstrate an understanding of the role of complementary therapies in the Australian health care system;
  2. describe the key dimensions of the debates between orthodox medicine and its alternatives;
  3. discuss the social, political and cultural context of the growth of interest in complementary therapies;
  4. critically evaluate their own stances towards such therapies in relationship to the views of other professionals such as natural therapists, scientists, doctors, nurses, etc; and
  5. describe the role of regulating bodies such as governments and professional organisations with respect to such therapies.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Students are taught to examine the role of complementary therapies in the Australian health care system. This requires students to have good knowledge of their own discipline and their relationship with other disciplines. 		True True
2 Communication Skills
Effective written communication is an essential component of the assessment tasks of this unit. Two essays are assigned so that specific feedback from the first may enable students to improve upon their written communication skills prior to submission of the second. 		True True
3 Global Perspectives
Teaching and learning the content and assessment topics in this unit emphasise a global perspective and encourage intercultural considerations. 		True
4 Information Literacy
Students are taught to access information from a variety of sources in order to complete and practise this attribute in the assessment tasks. 		True True True
5 Life-Long Learning
Students are encouraged to develop life-long learning practices through the application of the material covered in this unit to their practice as health professionals. 		True
6 Problem Solving
Effective problem solving is an essential component of the assessment tasks of this unit. Use of the online Discussions board is encouraged to assist problem solving. 		True True
7 Social Responsibility
The very nature of developing an understanding of the role of complementary therapies in the Australian health care system requires students to be socially responsible in their consideration of practice with clients and in their relationships with health care practitioners of other disciplines. This attribute will be taught to students. 		True
8 Team Work
Through use of the online bulletin board students are taught to take a collaborative approach to problem solving which they can then practise in both assignments. 		True True
   

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