1st Specialization in Mental Health and Psychiatry
Deontology and ethics
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| ECTS Credits | 1 |
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| Number of Hours (h/year) | 15 |
| Teaching staff | HERCOT, Anne-Sophie |
| Course Unit | Compulsory |
| Term | Quad. 1 and 2 |
| Code | PARA-D_SPSY0004/1 |
| Prerequisite | Deontology 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Graduate Nurse. |
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| Aims and Objectives | Opening the mind of the students, by discussions and exchanges, to a large overview of ethical problems in the fields of mental health care and psychiatry, influenced by the main thinking ways: religious and other philosophical orientations. Enable the students to adopt criticism and humanistic attitudes about ethical problems in the field of mental health care and mental health prevention. |
| Description | Introduction: deontology, morals and ethics. Conceptual frame: main religious and philosophical thinking ways. Human rights and Universal Human Rights Declaration. Bioethics committee and local committees Treatment demand and “enlightened consensus ” Fundamental rights of patients in treatment:
Physical restraining Chemotherapy practice Mental handicaps sterilisation Ethics and research Ethics and psychiatric hospital functioning:
Practise ethical cogitation on base concrete situations |
| Bibliography | ANDORNO R., Bioéthique et dignité de la personne, médecine et société, PUF, 1997. CASSIERS L., ENGLERT Y et Coll, Les avis du comité de bioéthique, De Boeck Université, 2001. GOUVERNEMENT WALLON, Ethique et psychiatrie, Travaux de la commission consultative permanente en matière scientifique et d’éthique psychiatrique, Juin 1994. Mémento de l’art infirmier, Ed. Kluwer, 2001. |
| Teaching and Learning Methods | Lectures workshops |
| Assessment Methods | Written examinations |
| Notes | In part |
| Language | French |
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