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Learning outcomes

Developing skills in the context of health education in order to promote healthy lifestyles
Analyze concepts and health promotion strategies, health education, health education.
Analyze theoretical models which affect the choice of lifestyles and motivation to change
Investigate some stages of design (analysis of needs and planning of objectives) of a therapeutic education intervention

Program

Health promotion and theoretical models that affect the choice of lifestyles and motivation to change
Distinction between health determinants and inequalities, risk factors and protective factors.
Resources and individual skills: health literacy, life skills, as prerequisites for health promotion.
How to make the most effective communication through the compilation of written information materials
The theory of cognitive dissonance (Festinger 1957)
Self-efficacy (Bandura, A. 1991) and theory -health locus of control (J. B. Rotter 1966).
The model of the stages of change (J. O.Prochaska and Di Clemente)
Planning of interventions of health education and therapeutic education
Evolution of health education concepts, patient education, therapeutic education, informal and formal education
Concept of intentionality and educational settings
The educational relationship: the empowerment concepts
The adult learning characteristics
The counseling approach in patient education
The quality of the questions and answers
Deepening on some aspects of the design:
Techniques and skills to detect the educational needs of the chronically ill and principles of selfmanagment and self management support
Educational diagnosis and motivational interviews according to the model Rollnick
Educational contract (definition of educational goals: goal setting and action plan)
Follow-up and educational recovery, the evaluation ( Closing the Loop "and" Teach Back ")

Examination Methods

Written test with open and closed questions.