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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Elements define the essential outcomes
2. Evaluate client progress
   • Seek client feedback about treatment impacts and compliance with the treatment plan
   • Make own observations and assessment of client changes based on oriental medicine framework
   • Evaluate treatment impacts in relation to client’s physical, qi and emotional wellbeing
   • Compare changes and improvements with expectations in the treatment plan, existing research and evidence from own practice
   • Seek additional information from clients when progress suggests this is needed
   • Accurately document progress in client treatment plan
3. Adjust treatment based on evaluation
   • Determine the need for adjustment to treatment plan based on evaluation of client progress
   • Identify and respond to factors that may be inhibiting client progress
   • Adjust treatment plans based on outcomes and sources of research or evidence that support massage practice
   • Accurately document any adjustments to treatment plans
4. Develop practice from client evaluation
   • Review progress of clients in context of own individual practice
   • Identify areas of own practice for further research or development to support client outcomes
   • Pro-actively seek and respond to professional development opportunities

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 Shiatsu/oriental therapy client consultation work

managed at least 60 Shiatsu/oriental therapies assessments and treatment sessions - clients must include males and females from different stages of life with varied presentations

monitored and evaluated Shiatsu and oriental therapies treatments provided to at least 5 different clients with at least 3 treatments per client

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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 monitoring and evaluation:

children in the workplace

codes of conduct

duty of care

informed consent

mandatory reporting

practitioner / client boundaries

privacy, confidentiality and disclosure

records management

work role boundaries

working within scope of practice

presenting symptoms that require referral to a medical practitioner

work health and safety

types of criteria by which Shiatsu and oriental therapies treatments are evaluated

methods of monitoring treatment progress

re-assessment

client feedback

barriers to therapeutic progress and ways to respond within a Shiatsu/oriental therapies framework

expectations of treatment for different conditions and client groups, and factors that impact on those expectations:

client history

contraindications

compliance

interactions with other treatments

impact of external environment

evaluation of appropriateness of style and technique

client general health

presenting condition

sources of research and evidence that support traditional oriental medicine practice

the role of maintaining personal health and awareness

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