Exercise and Nutrition Counselling
Course code
HKT5085.HK
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Liikumise ja toitumise nõustamine
Course title in English
Exercise and Nutrition Counselling
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Mailiis Tammeveski (language of instruction:Estonian)
lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
Create opportunities to get an overview of the relationship between physical inactivity and overload with health and work capacity, assessment of nutrition and exercise habits, methods of inducing change, and repeat the counseling process. Create an opportunity to use learned counseling techniques and motivational interviewing.
Brief description of the course
Movement hobby, lack of movement and overload. Movement recommendations at different ages and in case of health disorders. Suitable physical load, optimization of training load, recovery. Purpose, assumptions, possibilities, limitations and problems of counselling. Individual assessment of eating and exercise habits, history. Counseling and intervention methods and process. Evidence-based counseling method motivational interviewing and its use in supporting the client's ability to act.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- has knowledge of the possibilities and effects of movement, the counselling process and structure,
- assesses individual needs and uses aids to define them;
- understands the nature of motivation and the counselor's role in inducing and supporting change;
- uses evidence-based counseling methods;
- carries out the counseling process and analyzes it.
- has knowledge of the possibilities and effects of movement, the counselling process and structure,
- assesses individual needs and uses aids to define them;
- understands the nature of motivation and the counselor's role in inducing and supporting change;
- uses evidence-based counseling methods;
- carries out the counseling process and analyzes it.
Teacher
Prerequisite course 1
Prerequisite course 2
Additional information
"In order to pass the exam, calculated independent works must be submitted by a given deadline.
Accounting independent works:
presentation of the counseling method with the creation and completion of a practical task;
repeated exercise and/or nutrition counseling with audio recording and portfolio creation and presentation;
written self-analysis "I as a counselor".
Examination: written test."
Accounting independent works:
presentation of the counseling method with the creation and completion of a practical task;
repeated exercise and/or nutrition counseling with audio recording and portfolio creation and presentation;
written self-analysis "I as a counselor".
Examination: written test."
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