Promoting Well-Being and Health in Physiotherapy (5cr)

Objective

The student is able to

- define the key concepts related to healthy exercise and exercise guidance
- finds solutions for the client's individual health-related change needs and knows how to guide the change process
- assess the client's health with various measurements and methods, also utilizing technology and digitality
- use national exercise and nutrition recommendations and evidence-based information in customer-oriented guidance and counseling skills.
- to plan and implement a goal-oriented exercise lesson for the group using different guidance methods
- justify and apply their activities in individual and group exercise, counseling and guidance skills.

Content

- Health exercise and the key concepts of exercise guidance
- Methods and principles of health promotion
- Utilization of various measurement methods and technology in counseling and guidance skills.
- Finnish exercise and nutrition recommendations for different ages and groups
- Principles and possibilities of group guidance
- Possibilities and guidance of applied individual and group exercise in different environments

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Student

- barely knows how to define the key concepts related to health exercise and exercise guidance
- inadequately finds solutions to the client's health-related individual needs for change and is insufficiently able to guide the change process
- can poorly assess the client's health with various measurements and methods, and the utilization of technology and digitality is insufficient
- inadequately uses national exercise and nutrition recommendations and evidence-based information in customer-oriented guidance and counseling skills.
- to plan and implement a mechanically goal-oriented exercise lesson for the group and the utilization of different guidance methods is insufficient
- does not know how to justify his activities in a versatile and applicable way in individual and group exercise, counseling and guidance skills.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Student

- can define the main concepts related to health exercise and exercise guidance
- partly finds solutions to the client's health-related individual change needs and knows how to guide the change process to some extent
- is able to assess the general characteristics of the client's health with various measurements and methods, also utilizing technology and digitality
- partially uses national exercise and nutrition recommendations and evidence-based information in customer-oriented guidance and counseling skills.
- plan and implement a goal-oriented exercise lesson for the group using different guidance methods
- justify and partially apply their activities in individual and group exercise, counseling and guidance skills.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Student

- can broadly define the key concepts related to health exercise and exercise guidance
- finds versatile solutions for the customer's individual health-related change needs and knows how to guide the change process
- accurately assess the client's health with various measurements and methods, also utilizing technology and digitality
- widely and versatilely uses national exercise and nutrition recommendations and evidence-based information in customer-oriented guidance and counseling skills.
- to plan and implement a target-oriented exercise lesson for the group using different guidance methods
- justify and apply versatile activities in individual and group exercise, counseling and guidance skills.