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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

300730 (v.3) Behavioural Responses to Illness 234

Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: School of Nursing and Midwifery
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Introduction to behavioural perspectives on illness, social justice and health. Communication processes. Concepts and management of stress, anxiety, anger, fear, pain and depression. Coping mechanisms and strategies for relaxation. Assertiveness. Alteration to body image. Research on adaptations to illness. Loss and grief, death, dying and bereavement.
Syllabus: Introduction to behavioural perspectives on illness, social justice and health. Communication processes. Concepts and management of stress, anxiety, anger, fear, pain and depression. Coping mechanisms and strategies for relaxation. Assertiveness. Alteration to body image. Research on adaptations to illness. Loss and grief, death, dying and bereavement.
Field of Education: 060301 General Nursing
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1     Y    
2012 Singapore Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External