Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Talking About Cancer: Reducing Risk, Early Detection and Mythbusting
Cancer Research UK
Talking About Cancer explored the knowledge, tips and tools needed to encourage simple, effective conversations about cancer. Lead by Cancer Research UK’s experienced trainers, participants learned about cancer myths and facts, cancer prevention and the importance of visiting the doctor early. The course also looked at the barriers that can prevent people from making positive changes, and how to overcome them.
3 weeks, 1 hour per week
Gillian Kilgour
Lead Cancer Awareness Trainer
Cancer Research UK
Gwen Kaplan
Lead Cancer Awareness Trainer
Cancer Research UK
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Summarise simple, reliable facts about cancer, prevention, early diagnosis and screening
- Identify appropriate sources of support and information, and signpost people to them
- Develop a plan of action for talking about cancer
- Engage those around you in effective conversations about cancer
- Assess the barriers that can prevent people from changing their lifestyle or visiting the doctor, and engage them in a way that encourages them to take action
Syllabus
- Key facts and health messages about cancer prevention, screening and early diagnosis, and how to explain them.
- Confidence for having conversations about cancer that help others take positive action.
- Identification of barriers to making lifestyle changes or seeing a doctor.
- Communication methods that overcome barriers and avoid building defensiveness and fear.
- Methods of questioning that help people make decisions for themselves.
- Identifying how our own feelings can affect conversations.
- Directing people to the right places for advice and support.
- Creating an action plan for talking about cancer.
Issued on 25th July 2018
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