Psychosocial Care - Text version

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Psychosocial Care - Text version

This text version of the Psychosocial Care module is part of the VUCCnet elearning course in palliative care which has been developed in partnership with the African Palliative Care Association and Cardiff University. Experts in palliative care from across Africa and the UK have contributed to ensure this module is contextualised to the sub-Saharan cancer profile and resource setting.

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This module was published in January 2014.

THIS E-LEARNING MODULE RUNS BEST ON MOZILLA FIREFOX AND INTERNET EXPLORER 7 AND ABOVE WITH FLASH ENABLED.

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Target audience

Multi-disciplinary African healthcare professionals.

Learning objectives

By the end of the module, you should be able to:

Outline to a colleague what is meant by psychosocial care.
List 4 common areas of concerns that patients may express.
List at least 4 core skills for psychosocial care workers.

IT Requirements

This module requires the learner to have a good, stable internet connection and runs best on INTERNET EXPLORER 7 AND ABOVE, and MOZILLA FIREFOX on either Windows or MacOS. FLASH ADD ON is also required to run this module.

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This module was funded by the International Atomic Energy Agency - Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy.

Psychosocial Care - Text version

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