HLTAYV008Provide Ayurvedic remedial therapies

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What an assessment for HLTAYV008 must cover

105 assessable components: 4 elements (20 performance criteria), 37 performance evidence and 48 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Prepare client for treatment

  • 1.1Make preparations according to indicators and information from assessment
  • 1.2Explain factors which may interfere with the effectiveness of the treatment
  • 1.3Explain clearly how the treatment will be provided and managed
  • 1.4Inform the client of possible physical or emotional reactions during and following a session and the appropriate course of action to take
  • 1.5Follow established protocols and infection control procedures to physically prepare the client for treatment
  • 1.6Confirm client consent for treatment

2 Use Ayurvedic techniques and sequences

  • 2.1Determine treatment sequence and location according to Ayurvedic health assessment indications
  • 2.2Use the condition and response of the client as a continual feedback to the initial assessment
  • 2.3Position client to optimise their comfort and support while allowing for optimum application of techniques
  • 2.4Maintain therapist postures that ensure a controlled distribution of body weight
  • 2.5Maintain client-focused attention throughout the treatment session
  • 2.6Recognise reactions to treatment and make prompt appropriate response

3 Provide advice and resources to client

  • 3.1Educate client in relevant and practical techniques for promotion and maintenance of optimum health
  • 3.2Answer client queries with clarity, using appropriate language
  • 3.3Use honesty and integrity when explaining treatment plans, schedules and recommendations to the client
  • 3.4Promote client independence and responsibility in treatment when appropriate

4 Monitor treatment

  • 4.1Evaluate progress with the client against objectives of the treatment plan
  • 4.2Identify and record effects of previous treatment from client and practitioner perspectives
  • 4.3Evaluate treatment plan and the need for ongoing or additional treatment based on client feedback and ongoing assessment
  • 4.4Negotiate and document changes to the plan with the client

Performance evidence

  • performed the activities outlined in the performance criteria of this unit during a period of at least 400 hours of Ayurvedic client consultation work
  • prepared for and managed at least 40 different remedial therapies sessions, including at least 20 massages. Clients must include males and females from different stages of life with varied presentations
  • provided each of the following snehana therapies at least twice:
  • abhyanga
  • bala abhyanga
  • shiro abhyanga
  • nabhi - naval vijnanam and massage
  • karna purana (oil in ear)
  • nasya, pratimarsha (oil in nose)
  • sat karma - kunjala, neti, baghi, basti, bhastrika, nauli
  • shad upkarmas
  • langhana
  • brimhana
  • rukshana
  • snehna
  • svedana
  • sthambana
  • chavitti
  • pregnancy massage (part of abyanga)
  • massage after pregnancy (mother massage)
  • udvartana (massage with pressure, dry and unctuous)
  • udgharshana
  • navarakizi
  • yoga chikitsa
  • provided Ayurvedic therapeutic dhara treatments, including each of the following at least twice:
  • shiro dhara
  • parisheka
  • pizichil
  • pinda sweda
  • lepas, basti
  • bhaspa sweda
  • cleanses
  • provided Ayurvedic therapeutic basti treatments, including each of the following at least once:
  • hrud basti - snehan over the cardiac region (hridaya)
  • kati basti - snehan over the lumbrosacral region (kati)
  • created and maintained complete and accurate client records
  • interacted effectively with clients during treatments, providing clear, accurate and supportive information and guidance

Knowledge evidence

  • legal and ethical considerations (national and state/territory) for providing remedial therapies:
  • codes of conduct
  • duty of care
  • infection control
  • informed consent
  • mandatory reporting
  • practitioner/client boundaries
  • privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
  • records management
  • work role boundaries
  • working within scope of practice
  • presenting symptoms that require referral to a medical practitioner
  • work health and safety
  • macrocosm and microcosm & primordial elements, panchamahabhutas
  • trigunas
  • doshas
  • five forms of vata
  • five forms of pitta
  • five forms of kapha
  • dhatus
  • malas
  • agni
  • prakruti
  • examination of the constitution of an individual, prakruti parikshan
  • healthy person, swastha purusha
  • ama
  • Ayurvedic remedial therapies and how to apply them:
  • what each therapy does
  • what effects it might have
  • what the cautions and contraindications are
  • herbalised oils and powders used
  • Ayurvedic massage oils and powders
  • tailas (herbalised oils) lepas, pastes, bolusses and powdered herbs and how to prepare/ dispense them
  • science of marma:
  • classifications
  • marma points and their reflex points
  • additional marmas in the body
  • techniques of marma massage (107 important points)
  • theory of panchakarma
  • potential reactions during treatment and how to respond
  • potential reactions following treatment and appropriate client advice
  • methods of monitoring treatment progress
  • re-assessment
  • client feedback
  • types of advice and resources that can be provided to clients for their use outside the clinical environment
  • barriers to therapeutic progress and ways to respond within an Ayurvedic framework
  • documentation requirements for recording treatment details
  • types of symptoms within each body system that may be treated with Ayurvedic tactile therapies

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