HLTMSG015 - Adapt massage treatments to meet specific needs

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each units learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

• for three different people each with a different specific need or needs:

• conduct case-specific research identifying key aspects and features of the special needs and how they may impact assessment and treatment
• effectively adapt communication, assessment and treatment strategies to meet the specific needs
• undertake a process of reflection, identifying changes in own understanding of client needs.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• Commonwealth and State or Territory legal and ethical considerations for working with specific groups:

• children in the workplace
• codes of conduct
• discrimination:

  age
  disability
  racial and cultural
  gender

• duty of care
• informed consent
• mandatory reporting
• therapist and client boundaries
• privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
• work health and safety (WHS)

• treatment management factors that must be considered for client with specific needs:

• client interview and intake
• variations in approach to assessment and treatment
• post-treatment recommendations

• client needs and how to adjust assessment and treatment:

• disability:

  physical
  cognitive
  sensory and communicative

• pregnancy
• chronic condition
• mental and emotional health
• trauma
• communicable disease
• palliative care needs
• post-surgical needs
• oncology and cancer survivorship

• variations associated with specific needs:

• age
• gender
• culture
• stage of health condition

• people who may be involved with obtaining informed consent:

• carer
• parent and guardian
• translator

• professional responsibilities when client needs fall outside scope of own practice:

• when referral is appropriate or required
• information and advice sources
• evidence-based research techniques.