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Enhance your career with more in depth knowledge of how and why the body moves.

Lay a foundation for further learning in areas of biomechanics, muscular fitness or physiotherapy.

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. How Nerves Work
   
   • how nerves cause reactions in the human body.
2. Nerves & Motor Skills
   
   • how the nervous system affects motor skill performance
3. Skeletal Muscle
   
   • function and structure of skeletal muscle in the human body
4. Muscle Organisation
   
   • organisation of muscle tissue in the human body
5. Muscular Movement
   
   • mechanics of muscular movement
6. Muscular Development
   
   • development of muscular strength and muscular endurance.
7. Muscle Flexibility
   
   • selecting muscular flexibility exercises
8. Muscles & Posture
   
   • significance of muscles to posture and general well being.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

COURSE CONTENTS:

There are 9 lessons in this module as follows:

1. Cell Physiology

2. Histophysiology

3. Systems Physiology

4. Neurophysiology

5. Endocrinology

6. Cardiovascular Physiology

7. Immunology

8. Respiratory Physiology

9. Renal Physiology

Nutrition Conditions and Diet Management (Nutrition III) has 9 Topics:

Diabetes & Hypertension

Weight Loss & Gain

Gluten & Lactose Intolerance

Nutrition During Cancer Treatment

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

Cardiovascular Disease

Children’s Nutrition

 Sports Nutrition

 Nutrition in Pregnancy

Foundations of Human Nutrition I has 6 Topics:

An Introduction to Food Groups and Essential Nutrients

The Digestive System

A Balanced Diet

Diets

The Importance of Nutrients in Normal Cell Function, Energy Production and Metabolism

Nutritional Disorders

At some point in their lives, everybody seeks advice from friends, family or professionals to help them make decisions or decide how to handle a particular situation or event. The life coach makes available the kind of consistent assistance and support that may be lacking in a person’s life or difficult to obtain when consulting family or friends who may have quite different perspectives.

A life coach can become a confidante, helping the client determine what is important, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and ascertain where they want to be in six months, a year, ten years. Life coaching involves assisting the client set personal and professional goals and establishing a workable strategy to attain them within a given time frame. For clients, a life coach can provide a life-changing experience, an invaluable opportunity to take control over their lives and fulfil their dreams.

This course will enable people in health, fitness, counselling, social work etc to help others set and achieve life goals. Develop an appreciation of how different perceptions of the world can be just as critical as knowledge, skill and opportunity in a person's success or failure. The course also covers such things as coaching processes, coaching skills and goal setting; and is equally relevant to developing both physical and psychological well being in the client.

• Explain the importance of listening when dealing with conflict situations, and appreciate different listening techniques.
• Define negotiation and discuss the process of negotiation
• Define mediation and discuss the process of mediation
• Define facilitation and discuss the process of facilitation
• Discuss problems that may arise through negotiation, in particular, balance of power and its connotations
• Explain the importance of working in groups as a means of learning how to deal with group conflicts
• Explain ways of understanding and dealing with different types of crisis.

There are 7 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction -Development & Learning Theory
   
   • Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
   • Schemes
   • Assimilation and Accommodation
   • Equilibration
   • Piaget’s Stages of Development.
2. Behavioural Learning
   
   • The Evolution of Behavioural Theories of Learning
   • Thorndike’s Theory of the Law of Effect
   • Skinner’s Theory of Operant Conditioning
   • Principles of Behavioural Learning; Reinforcers
   • Positive and Negative Reinforcement
   • The Premack Principle
3. Information Processing
   
   • Information Processing Theory
   • A Model of Information Processing
   • Perception
   • Gestalt Psychology
   • Attention
   • Short-Term Memory
   • Long-Term Memory
   • Division of Long-Term Memory
4. Memory Retention & Loss
   
   • Remembering and Forgetting
   • Interference
   • Inhibition and Facilitation
   • Primacy and Recency
   • Learning Strategies
5. Individual Needs
   
   • Effective Instruction
   • The QAIT Model
   • Quality of Instruction
   • Appropriate Levels of Instruction
   • Incentive;Time
   • Between-Class Ability Grouping
   • Within Class Ability Grouping
   • Effective Use of Ability Groups
   • Mastery Learning
   • Outcomes-Based Education
   • Individualised Instruction
6. Constructivist Learning
   
   • What is the Constructivist View
   • Top Down or Bottom Up Processing
   • Generative Learning
   • Discovery Learning
   • Reception Learning
   • Activating Prior Knowledge
7. Motivation
   
   • Intrinsic Motivation
   • Extrinsic Motivation
   • Factors Affecting Motivation
   • Motivational Theories
   • Behavioural Learning Theory
   • Human Needs Theory; Dissonance Theory
   • Cognitive Dissonance Theory
   • Personality Theory
   • Attribution Theory Expectancy Theory;
   • Improving Motivation
   • Nurturing Interest/Curiosity
   • Providing Incentive to Learn

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Develop your understanding of the ageing process, and counselling the elderly cope more effectively with their grief and aging process.

There are nine lessons in this module as follows:

1. Understanding Ageing

2. Lifestyle Changes

3. Deterioration of Health

4. Support Services

5. Enablement Techniques

6. Grief and Loss Counselling

7. Debilitating and Terminal Illness

8. Losing a Loved One

9. Ethics and Intervention

There are eight lessons in this module as follows:

1. People as Consumers Understanding the types of psychological “rewards” gained by a person through buying. Distinguishing between consumers, customers and buyers?
   
2. Market Segmentation Understanding market segments and applying the concept of target marketing.
   
3. Internal Influences –Perception & Personality Consumer self image, difference threshold, trait theory of personality, etc.
   
4. Internal Influences –Motivation and Awareness Customer satisfaction, the way complaints are dealt with, stimulus generalisation and stimulus discrimination, etc
   
5. Social Influences Family Influences, Social groups, Developmental Influences, Peer Group Influences (Work and Leisure), Social Class and Culture
   
6. Consumerism Deceptive advertising, sensitivity to consumer needs, variation between perception and reality.
   
7. Communication and Persuasion Message Evaluation, Selection & Execution
   
8. Deciding to Buy Why people shop, or do not shop; surveying the market place.

Part of a counsellor’s training as already mentioned is becoming aware of their own needs so that they realize to what extent these needs can interfere with the counselling process. The counsellor should constantly be checking themselves by querying whose needs are being met…their own or those of the client.

It is not unethical that the counsellor’s personal needs are met within their professional practice, but the meeting of these needs should be kept in perspective. Needs should not be met at the expense of clients. Clients must never be exploited.

It is the duty of the professional counsellor to confront their own prejudices and vulnerabilities and so increase their self-awareness of their own problems by working through them.

By taking this route the counsellor will be less likely to project them onto their clients. If during the counsellor’s practising, old issues that were never fully resolved are brought back to the fore then it is the duty of the counsellor to seek therapy in order that they can resolve them.

• Identify patterns of drug-taking behaviour;
• Identify social, psychological and physical consequences of drug-taking on the individual;
• Understand the effects of stimulants and narcotics on the individual;
• Understand the effects of hallucinogens and marijuana on the individual;
• Understand the effects of anabolic steroids on the individual;
• Determine health and behavioural outcomes of alcohol use and mis-use;
• Determine health and behavioural outcomes of nicotine, caffeine and solvent use and misuse;
• Understand the effects of the major categories of OTC drugs and prescription regulations;
• Understand the effects of sedatives and anti-anxiety drugs on the brain and behaviour;
• Understand the effects of different types of anti-psychotic and anti-depressant drugs on the brain and behaviour;
• Describe different methods of treatment and prevention of drug-abuse and to discuss ways of educating the public as to the outcomes of taking drugs.

Careers Counselling involves more than just finding work for people.

Among other things, Careers Counselling may involve helping people:

• identify the best job for their skills and interests
• find any job to meet their personal and financial needs
• find a better or more appropriate job for their situation
• achieve job satisfaction through appropriate choices
• plan and cope with career changes
• better adapt to the workplace
• improve their potential for advancement in the workplace
• identify new career possibilities when circumstances change.

The course is divided into eight lessons as follows:

1. Learning Specific Skills - Learning methods;

2. Listening and Bonding - Meeting and greeting; helping the client relax; listening with intent

3. Reflection: Paraphrasing - Reflection of feeling; client responses to reflection of feelings; reflection of content and feeling

4. Questioning - Open and closed questions; other types of questions; goals of questioning

5. Interview Techniques - Summarising; confrontation; reframing

6. Changing Beliefs and Normalising - Changing self-destructive beliefs; irrational beliefs; normalising

7. Finding Solutions - Making choices; facilitating actions; gestalt awareness; psychological blocks

8. Ending the Counselling - Terminating the session; closure; further meetings; dependency, confronting dependency.

Delusional disorders are a form of psychosis, in which the person has paranoid delusions. These are usually long lasting and don’t have an obvious physical cause, such as a head injury. In older people, they may be accompanied by auditory hallucinations (noises, sounds, other people talking and so on, which don’t exist).

Self Enhancement course for Personal fitness. This is a great E Course to gain knowledge for the personal fitness of yourself and memebers of your family.

It is a self paced course which could be done from home. The course has assignments to assess yourself.

If you have a passion for working with our precious older population or are interested in pursuing a career in this well needed field this course is for you. The course can be done completely online from anywhere in Australia.

Designing your own garden can be one of the most creative things you ever do

– producing a living sculpture that gives you years of enjoyment.

The secret to good garden design is a plan.