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Inala Primary Care innovates with whole of practice training in Shared Medical Appointments On Saturday 8 May 2021, Inala Primary Care charitable general practice in Brisbane’s west invited ASLM to provide face-to-face professional development for their team so that they could begin delivering Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) in practice. Inala is a multicultural community with a complex clientele made […]
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How can health professionals avoid burnout by recognising and cultivating emotional awareness and self-compassion? Health professionals deal with pain, suffering and disease every day. We diagnose disease, make a treatment plan and implement therapeutic measures. We deal with others’ difficult emotions mostly by translating them into prescribed action plans. Making sense of the difficulties by […]
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The effects of macronutrients on depression Depression is typically thought of as a biochemical-based imbalance or a psychologically-rooted problem. On the contrary, nutrition can play a key role in the onset as well as severity and duration of depression. Many of the noticeable changes in food patterns that precede depression are strikingly similar to biological […]
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Exercise prescription in the postpartum period – the need for clear guidelines The postpartum period is the ideal time for health care professionals to recommend and educate women on evidence-based lifestyle interventions including exercise. The short-term benefits of postpartum exercise include improved mood, promotion of weight loss and maintenance cardiorespiratory fitness1. The long-term benefits are […]
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Rediscovering behaviourism to create healthy habits: Starting tiny without shooting dogs When I enrolled in university I thought I would study towards becoming either a lawyer (my English skills were strong, and I enjoyed John Grisham novels), or a clinical psychologist (I was interested in better understanding people and ‘helping’ them). Law school got off to a […]
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Introduction to talking to patients about health and weight Delivered in partnership with Cancer Council Victoria, this webinar provides health professionals with an introduction to better navigating weight management conversations with their patients.Please note, this video is currently unavailable. We are working to rectify this issue.
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Monash Nutrition online courses for health professionals At a time when food and nutrition information is at an all-time high, there is a lot of confusion and misinformation about food-based recommendations for health. The Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University (Monash Nutrition) have developed a suite of online courses for healthcare professionals (including […]
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Lifestyle Medicine: The missing puzzle piece for community pharmacy Community pharmacists are medication experts and are usually the health professional that people see most often. The foundation of our role is making sure medications are used appropriately, which means no medicine is overused, underused or misused. How this looks in practice varies wildly depending on […]
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The neuroscience of changing habits One of the biggest challenges Lifestyle Medicine practitioners face is facilitating changes in patients’ behaviour that improve health outcomes. We may be optimistic when we have a patient in front of us who agrees that they need to change their lifestyle, however, more often than not, many have difficulty making those changes […]
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ASLM is proud to partner with the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change at University of Melbourne and to endorse their new MicroCert, ‘Behaviour Change for Clinical Practice’ The Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine has partnered with the University of Melbourne to collaborate on a range of initiatives to improve professional practice, including the launch of […]
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