3231-Traditional and Complementary Medicine Associate Professionals

NOTE: This Unit group includes occupations in traditional and complementary medicine whose practice requires an extensive understanding of the benefits and applications of traditional and complementary therapies, developed as the result of prolonged formal study of these techniques as well as human anatomy and elements of modern medicine and those whose practice requires a less extensive understanding based on relatively short periods of formal education and training, or informally through the traditions and practices of the communities where they originated. Faith healers who treat human ailments through spiritual therapies, without using herbal therapies or other medicaments or physical treatments, are included in Unit group 5329, Personal Care Workers in health services not elsewhere classified. Occupations that provide therapy using traditional forms of massage and the application of pressure, such as acupressure and shiatsu therapists are classified in Unit group 3255, Physiotherapy Technicians and Assistants. Traditional and lay midwives, who provide basic pregnancy and birthing care and advice based primarily on experience and knowledge acquired informally through the traditions and practices of the communities where they originated, are classified in Unit group 3222, Midwifery Associate Professionals.