Program Overview

HLTMSG015 - Adapt Massage Treatments to Meet Specific Needs

Unit Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills, and knowledge required to adapt massage assessment and treatment strategies to respond to clients with specific needs. This unit applies to massage therapists.

Unit Details

• Unit code: HLTMSG015
• Study level: TAFE
• Nominal hours: 80
• Location: City Campus, Footscray Nicholson, Werribee
• Prerequisites: N/A

Overview

This unit is about adapting massage treatments to meet the specific needs of clients. It involves understanding how to modify assessment and treatment strategies for clients with various needs, ensuring that massage therapists can provide effective and safe treatments.

Assessment

For Melbourne Campuses

Assessment tasks are designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters, in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements. This includes work-based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

• Conduct case-specific research identifying key aspects and features of special needs and how they may impact assessment and treatment for three different people, each with different specific needs or needs.
• Effectively adapt communication, assessment, and treatment strategies to meet the specific needs.
• Undertake a process of reflection, identifying changes in their own understanding of client needs.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• Commonwealth and State or Territory legal and ethical considerations for working with specific groups, including:
  • Children in the workplace
  • Codes of conduct
  • Discrimination (age, disability, racial and cultural, gender)
  • Duty of care
  • Informed consent
  • Mandatory reporting
  • Therapist and client boundaries
  • Privacy, confidentiality, and disclosure
  • Work health and safety (WHS)
• Treatment management factors that must be considered for clients with specific needs, including:
  • Client interview and intake
  • Variations in approach to assessment and treatment
  • Post-treatment recommendations
• Client needs and how to adjust assessment and treatment, including:
  • Disability (physical, cognitive, sensory, and communicative)
  • Pregnancy
  • Chronic condition
  • Mental and emotional health
  • Trauma
  • Communicable disease
  • Palliative care needs
  • Post-surgical needs
  • Oncology and cancer survivorship
• Variations associated with specific needs, including age, gender, culture, and stage of health condition.
• People who may be involved with obtaining informed consent, including carers, parents and guardians, and translators.
• Professional responsibilities when client needs fall outside the scope of their own practice, including when referral is appropriate or required, information and advice sources, and evidence-based research techniques.

As Part of a Course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

• Diploma of Remedial Massage (HLT52021)

Required Reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required, in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.