3rd Bachelor in Nursing care

Mental health and help relationship

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ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffPARAMEDICAL - Liège :
DELVAUX, Marie-Hélène
PARAMEDICAL - Huy :
DOSERAY, Béatrice
PARAMEDICAL - Verviers :
HERCOT, Anne-Sophie
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodePARA-D_BSI0048/3
Prerequisite

None.

Aims and Objectives

Approaching mental health and welfare notions as main factors of effective communication. Acquiring personal skills and competencies in help relationship and counselling in the field of nursing practice. Progressive building up of help relationships with patients

Description

Mental health :

  • Mental health: definition, factors of influence, difference of the problem of mental health and the problem of mental disease; nursing role relatong to mental health.
  • The person:notion of unicity and global nature, biological, intellectual, emotive, social and spiritual elements.
  • Theory of human needs: Maslow’s pyramid
  • Introspection: importance for the self knowledge and for the progress relating to competence of communication with the patients, their familial circle
  • Basic notion of stress and anxiety

Communication - relation:

  • Scheme of communication
  • Notions of representation
  • Essential attitudes in order to communication of quality ( respect, positive consideration, impartiality, tolerance, patience...)
  • Deefinition of two types of communication: verbal and no verbal- various communicative behaviors
  • Four levels of relation: civility, of functional nature, of understanding, support, relationship
  • Various types of support
  • Tools of relation: the message “I” , the listening, the observation.
Bibliography

Phaneuf M., Communication, entretien, relation d’aide et validation, Ed. Chenelière/McGrauw-Hill, Montréal, Sept. 2005.

Rispail D., Mieux se connaître pour soigner, Masson, Paris, Sept. 2005.

Sue Cook J.,Karen Lee Fontaine, Soins infirmiers, Psychiatrie et santé mentale, Erpi, Ottawa, 1991.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

communication exercises and study cases.

Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

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