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Overview
What you will learn
The key benefits of the Cancer Coach Professional program offered by York University are:
- Develop skills as a cancer self-management coach to effectively engage and motivate cancer populations to apply healthy behaviours for health recovery.
- Gain a person-centred model of cancer care that can be implemented and scaled at your organization or private practice to improve quality of life and wellbeing of your clients, and potentially reduce the impact of co-morbidities.
- Understand theories of behavioural change and health promotion and their application to self-management support.
- Identify the impact and self-management support needs of cancer patients across phases in the cancer continuum and the role of a cancer self-management health coach.
- Describe and apply the essential elements of a whole person cancer, health history, and self-management capability assessment for identification of collaborative problem-identification.
- Construct person-centered, plans of care that address patient-determined problems and goals/actions to address tasks of cancer self-management and problem-specific and health behaviour support.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Identify cancer health coaching competencies to support patient self-management, and health behaviours to improve disease outcomes and health recovery.
- Apply motivational interviewing, decision-balance, 5As counselling processes interventions.
- Complete comprehensive whole person assessment interventions.
- Collaborate with inter-professional health teams to support self-management for rapid, episodic cancer care.
- Employ self-management support during acute treatment and for longer term survivorship.
- Prepare self-management and health recovery plans based on client assessments.
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
Language
English
TOEFL® IBT 86
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Public Health Coaching View 4 other Short Courses in Public Health in CanadaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
TOEFL® IBT 86
Other requirements
General requirements
- Regulated health professionals with an active licence working in primary care, community care, specialty clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, and other clinical settings; OR
- Regulated Health professionals with an active licence working, who want to start their own health coaching practice; OR
- Internationally educated health professionals (eg. IENs, IMD) ) with a licence from their home countries;
- Programs at the Health Leadership & Learning Network (HLLN) are offered in English. To register for our programs, it is your responsibility to ensure that you meet the language requirements.
Tuition Fee
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International
3500 CAD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3500 CAD for the full programme during 1 months. -
National
3500 CAD/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3500 CAD for the full programme during 1 months.
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