Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Primary groupings

Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Primary groupings
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10 - Health and related fields

51. - Health professions and related programs

This series comprises instructional programs that prepare individuals to practice as licensed professionals and assistants in the health care professions and related clinical sciences and administrative and support services.

51.36 - Movement and mind-body therapies

This subseries comprises instructional program classes 51.3601 to 51.3699.

51.3601 - Movement therapy

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to use functional and expressive integration strategies to help promote somatic awareness and optimal psychophysical functioning. These programs include courses in skilled touch techniques, kinesthetic awareness processes, movement observation, patterning, client assessment and guidance, verbal and non-verbal communication, practice management, professional standards and ethics, and specific therapeutic and educational modalities (Alexander Technique, Aston Patterning, Body-Mind Centering, Feldenkrais Method©, Laban Movement Analysis, Trager Approach, and others).

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • movement therapy

    All examples

  • Exclusion(s)

    • dance therapy(51.2302)
    • kinesiology(31.0505)
    • physical therapy(51.2308)
51.3602 - Yoga teacher training/yoga therapy

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to function as professional instructors in the spiritual and physical therapy of Yoga in private, institutional, and clinical settings, These programs include courses in the principles of Ayurveda, philosophy of Yoga, warm-up and progressive exercises, breathing exercises, meditation, Yamas and Niyamas, instructional techniques, posture adjustment, student/client counselling and assessment, advanced Yoga disciplines and styles, business practices, and professional standards and ethics.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • yoga instructor
    • yoga teacher
    • yoga teacher training
    • yoga therapy

    All examples

  • Exclusion(s)

    • Ayurvedic medicine(51.3305)
    • polarity therapist(51.3703)
51.3603 - Hypnotherapy/hypnotherapist

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to employ the controlled inducement of altered states of consciousness, or trance, to reduce pain, resolve emotional conflicts, and enhance communications as part of diagnostic and treatment programs. These programs include courses in the principles of hypnosis and suggestion, induction and deepening, post-hypnotic suggestion, awakening techniques, regression, pacing and leading, resistance transformation, client testing and management, practice management and regulation, and professional standards and ethics.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • clinical hypnosis
    • clinical hypnotherapy
    • hypnotherapist
    • hypnotherapy

    All examples

51.3699 - Movement and mind-body therapies, other

This instructional program class comprises any program not listed above that relates to Movement and mind-body therapies.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • mindful meditation
    • mindfulness and meditation
    • neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
    • other movement and mind-body therapies

    All examples

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