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Taught by leading experts
Learn from internationally recognised academics and professionals with years of on the ground experience.
Shareable digital certificate
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What you will learn
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
Health professionals are increasingly using behaviour change techniques to optimise treatment outcomes and improve the overall well-being of their patients and clients.
This course is ideal for health practitioners working across a range of settings – including allied, clinical and educational – who are seeking the evidence-based knowledge, skills, and confidence to successfully adopt clinical behaviour change interventions.
Understand behaviour change science
Gain a strong grounding in the core principles of behaviour change, and the theoretical and practical elements of behaviour change science. Develop professional competency in core techniques including increasing motivation, developing SMART goals, if-then planning, self-monitoring and self-evaluation, and habit formation.
Design and apply behaviour change interventions
Attain the practical skills to design and implement behaviour change interventions in your practice. Develop the confidence to successfully use behaviour change techniques to optimise patient or client wellbeing and prevent or treat a range of physical and psychological conditions.
Support and promote clinical behaviour change
Use your new knowledge to maintain, support and expand opportunities for clinical behaviour change, including via professional resources and networks. You'll learn alongside a community of fellow practitioners, and this network will continue to be a valuable resource after you have completed this course.
Who you will learn from
Learn from skilled academics and professional experts who will share invaluable knowledge you can use in your job.
Professor Michelle Jongenelis
Principal Research Fellow
Michelle has expertise in health promotion, intervention development and evaluation, behavioural psychology and clinical psychology. She works across multiple and diverse health-related behaviours, and as a researcher and consultant for a broad range of organisations in both not-for-profit and government sectors. She sits on the Australian Council of Smoking and Health and is a member of the Alcohol Advertising Review Board. She is an accredited Clinical Psychologist.
More from this series
Take multiple courses to deepen your knowledge or stack towards a full degree.
The Health Leadership suite
This series draws on key psychology tools and techniques, including mindfulness, resilience and behaviour change, to give leaders the capacity to enhance worker and workplace wellbeing
This micro-credential is ideal for a range of health professionals including psychologists, medical practitioners, and allied health workers who are looking to expand the breadth of their practice. You may be a psychologist, school counsellor, social worker, medical practitioner, dietician, physiotherapist, exercise physiologist, audiologist, support worker, nurse, or occupational therapist.
To undertake this course, holding a Bachelor's degree is a good preparation and learners will build on their existing professional skills in supporting patients/ clients by giving one-on-one advice. There are no specific eligibility requirements. You do not need to be a clinician or have access to clients.
Relevance to your job and industry
Behaviour Change for Clinical Practice has been designed in consultation with industry. It is aligned with industry standards and registration frameworks of peak professional bodies, ensuring highly applicable learning.
It is endorsed by the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.
Skills and learning outcomes
By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of core behaviour change techniques and how to implement them in your practice. You'll be able to:
Demonstrate a theoretical and practical understanding of behaviour change science and its key principles
Design and implement behaviour change interventions, thus enhancing your clinical practice and meeting guidelines for continuing professional development
Demonstrate professional competency in core behaviour change techniques, including increasing motivation, developing SMART goals, if-then planning, self-monitoring and self-evaluation, and habit formation.
Workload and assessment
Behaviour Change for Clinical Practice is a largely self-paced course, which can be completed in approximately 40 hours, though we recommend you complete it over three to six weeks.
You'll undertake approximately:
12 hours guided online learning
20 hours independent study, including a short reflective journal
6 hours assessment tasks
Plus two optional one-hour Q&A sessions.
Assessment:
Multiple choice quizzes (25%)
A structured one-page clinical behaviour change practice protocol (40%)
Short clinical practice video (35%).
Your digital certificate
Once you've completed this course, you will be awarded your Behaviour Change for Clinical Practice micro-credential. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your micro-credential digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.
Pathways to further study
Behaviour Change for Clinical Practice can be taken as a stand-alone course or complemented with any other micro-credential in the Health Leadership suite.
This is a fully online and largely self-paced course, which provides a convenient way to develop your skill set within a time frame that suits you.
Throughout the course, you'll work through a series of linked online modules to build your knowledge of behaviour change. You'll utilise an interactive online workbook that links to supporting videos, readings, and your eJournal.
The course also features optional interactive Q&A sessions, giving you the opportunity to engage with course lecturers and ask questions. You'll also partake in a discussion board with your fellow practitioners, creating a valuable community that will be continued after the course is completed.
Expiry of micro-credential
This micro-credential will expire five years from the date of issue as particular knowledge and/or skills may either become outdated or need to be refreshed.
