FHP402 - Exercise Counselling

Subject Title
Exercise Counselling

Subject Description

Students will explore theoretical concepts of communication and counselling, and apply these concepts through experiential exercises. The experiential exercises will take students through fitness-based scenarios for general healthy and special populations. These populations will include youths, adults, and older adults of various abilities. Students will identify various factors which influence exercise adherence and motivation. Particular attention will be given to the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), theories and methodologies of behaviour modification.

Credit Status
This is a required course in the Fitness and Health Promotion program

Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this subject the student will be able to:

1.            Describe the role of a fitness professional in accordance to an exercise counselling session.
2.            Analyze an individual's likelihood of making a health behaviour change by utilizing several behaviour change theories and develop interventions to facilitate (e.g., Transtheoretical Model).
3.            Implement best-practice strategies by applying effective goal-setting principles to assist an individual with a health behaviour change.
4.            Formulate an intervention to increase an individual's exercise motivation by using various motivational theories.
5.            Discuss the components of effective communication and the barriers to communication with youth, adult and older adult populations in an interview setting.
6.            Explore electronic technologies as communication channels for physical activity delivery.
7.            Discuss how to proactively and effectively manage conflict in a fitness and counselling environment.

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