Aim of intervention
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Control and management of disease
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Maximizing psychological health, social and physical functioning
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Focus / approach
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Reductionist
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Holistic
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Perspective
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Patient-centered (disease-specific orientation) | Outsiders’ perspective (disease)
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Person-focused (body systems are interrelated) | Insider’s perspective (illness)
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Content
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Disease-specific
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Multiple-related diseases | Not disease-specific
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Subject-matter
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Predetermination of course content
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Room for personal problems and difficulties
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Acquisition of
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Specific competencies for predetermined assumed problems
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General multi-deployable competencies
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