School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Psycho-Oncology: The Science of Care
  • Unit Code

    MMS6505
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Carolyn Joan MCINTYRE

Description

This unit will examine behavioural and psychological theories that apply to cancer-related health behaviours and psycho-social adjustment after cancer diagnosis. This will include exploring the concept of cancer survivorship and principles of survivorship care. Evidence-based approaches to psycho-social intervention for improved patient outcomes will be explored. Students will demonstrate the knowledge and skills relevant to providing a supportive care environment while encouraging maintenance of behavioural change.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply psycho-oncology principles and theoretical models to encourage healthy lifestyle behaviours in cancer survivors.
  2. Formulate evidence-based survivorship plans to support comprehensive cancer care.
  3. Engage in reflective practice to improve self-awareness and professional practice in cancer care.

Unit Content

  1. History and purpose of psycho-oncology.
  2. Theoretical approaches to health behaviours and health outcomes.
  3. Psycho-social responses to cancer.
  4. Psycho-social intervention to support people with cancer.
  5. Group dynamics and peer support in cancer care.
  6. Communication skills to support patients and their families.
  7. Cancer Survivorship as a care framework.
  8. Self-awareness and self-care.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

In this unit, students are required to access eLearning materials via LMS and participate in critical discussion activities during specific weeks. Students will be guided with information analysis and survivorship planning, through the use of case study analysis and collaborative discussion. The reflective practice process is also embedded to encourage students to re-examine ideas and support ongoing professional development.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Testing30%
AssignmentCase Study Survivorship Plan40%
Reflective PracticeGuided Reflective Practice Journal30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Medical and Health Sciences

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Psycho-Oncology: The Science of Care
  • Unit Code

    MMS6505
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Carolyn Joan MCINTYRE

Description

This unit will examine behavioural and psychological theories that apply to cancer-related health behaviours and psycho-social adjustment after cancer diagnosis. This will include exploring the concept of cancer survivorship and principles of survivorship care. Evidence-based approaches to psycho-social intervention for improved patient outcomes will be explored. Students will demonstrate the knowledge and skills relevant to providing a supportive care environment while encouraging maintenance of behavioural change.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply psycho-oncology principles and theoretical models to encourage healthy lifestyle behaviours in cancer survivors.
  2. Formulate evidence-based survivorship plans to support comprehensive cancer care.
  3. Engage in reflective practice to improve self-awareness and professional practice in cancer care.

Unit Content

  1. History and purpose of psycho-oncology.
  2. Theoretical approaches to health behaviours and health outcomes.
  3. Psycho-social responses to cancer.
  4. Psycho-social intervention to support people with cancer.
  5. Group dynamics and peer support in cancer care.
  6. Communication skills to support patients and their families.
  7. Cancer Survivorship as a care framework.
  8. Self-awareness and self-care.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

In this unit, students are required to access eLearning materials via LMS and participate in critical discussion activities during specific weeks. Students will be guided with information analysis and survivorship planning, through the use of case study analysis and collaborative discussion. The reflective practice process is also embedded to encourage students to re-examine ideas and support ongoing professional development.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Testing30%
AssignmentCase Study Survivorship Plan40%
Reflective PracticeGuided Reflective Practice Journal30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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