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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Elements define the essential outcomes
2. Determine scope of client needs
   • Explore and clarify client expectations
   • Provide clear information about scope and limits of services to be provided
   • Collect an accurate, relevant and organised health record and document in a form which can be interpreted readily by other professionals
   • Recognise needs that are beyond scope of own practice and make referrals to other health care professionals as required
   • Identify and respond to any barriers to information gathering and assessment
   • Seek client information respectfully and sensitively, using purposeful, systematic and diplomatic questions
   • Manage information in a confidential and secure way
3. Make a physical assessment
   • Provide information about the physical assessment process and obtain client consent to proceed
   • Follow clinical and practitioner hygiene procedures
   • Respect client dignity and anticipate sensitivities
   • Seek client feedback on comfort levels
   • Assess client through hara, back and meridian palpation
   • Integrate observation and sensory information gathering techniques
   • Use ongoing questioning with client to gain further information as required
   • Accurately document information from the physical assessment
4. Analyse information
   • Correlate results of physical assessment with case history
   • Consider any available western medical information and incorporate into analysis within scope of own practice
   • Analyse energetic patterns and differentiate by assessing signs and symptoms
   • Identify condition according to stage and related implications by applying the eight principles of diagnosis
   • Identify pre-requisites or contraindications to treatment
   • Determine optimum type, duration and frequency of treatments
   • Use professional judgement to draw substantiated conclusions about treatment needs
   • Establish expected treatment outcomes based on the oriental therapies framework and evidence
   • Accurately document proposed treatment plan
5. Confirm assessment and treatment plan with client
   • Discuss assessment, its implications and rationale for treatment with the client
   • Assign and agree treatment priorities and expectations in consultation with the client
   • Schedule times and session lengths suited to the required techniques and sequences
   • Respond to client enquiries using language the client understands
   • Discuss referral and collaborative options with the client as required

Performance Evidence

The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the job role. There must be evidence that the candidate has:

performed the activities outlined in the performance criteria of this unit during a period of at least 200 hours of client consultation work

prepared for and managed at least 60 oriental therapies health assessments - clients must include males and females from different stages of life with varied presentations

used an oriental therapies framework to assess the therapeutic needs of clients, including:

diagnostic methods from four methods, eight principles and five elements

analysis and interpretation of the structural and functional relationships of movement patterns

determination of patterns of disharmony

interacted effectively with clients:

clearly articulated information about services, treatment options and rationale

engaged clients in decision making

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:

legal and ethical considerations (national and state/territory) for client assessment and treatment planning:

codes of conduct

duty of care

informed consent

mandatory reporting

practitioner/client boundaries

privacy, confidentiality and disclosure

records management

working role boundaries:

working within scope of practice

presenting symptoms that require referral to a medical practitioner

work health and safety

referral options for practitioners:

professional health services including complementary health modalities

community resources and support services

types and availability of further medical testing

factors and barriers that may impact on assessment, including:

physical

psychological

cultural

factors that affect individual health status, including:

constitution

lifestyle

diet

personal and medical history

values and attitudes

balance of rest and activity

physical environment

social environment

client information required for assessment and the scope and depth of information needed around:

client objectives and expectations

client history and its components

client current state of health

signs and symptoms:

onset

duration

location

quality and severity

non-verbal

different ways that signs and symptoms of conditions present:

physical

psychological

social

spiritual

features of signs and symptoms

principles and philosophy of oriental therapies framework:

yin and yang,

five elements theory

five vital substances

jing luo

zang fu

extraordinary organs,

four methods of diagnosis

eight principle patterns

six pathogenic influences

pattern differentiation and aetiology

seven emotions

oriental therapies diagnostic techniques and considerations:

origin and development of disease

disharmony

point location

tsubo

function and dysfunction

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) pattern differentiation

(TCM) pulse and tongue diagnosis

Oriental face diagnosis

four methods - visual, palpation, listening and smelling, asking

anatomical or mobility/flexibility assessment

back and spinal palpation assessment

progression of disease into the body according to six divisions

oriental therapies used for assessment of body imbalances including:

sotai

makko ho and corrective exercises

relationships between body types and symptoms according to five phases theory

influence of lifestyle, diet, exercise, personal history and values and attitudes on health

relational dynamics within and between human behaviour, anatomy and physiology, pathology and the natural world

possible reactions, contra-indications to treatment and/or limitations for assessment

treatment planning techniques and considerations

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