Mental Health Interventions
Code: 106129 ECTS Credits: 3| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2500891 Nursing | OT | 4 |
Contact
- Name:
- Nathalia Francis Rodriguez Zunino
- Email:
- nathaliafrancis.rodriguez@uab.cat
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Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites, but it is recommended to have taken the subjects of Psychosocial Sciences
Therapeutic Communication
Methodological bases of nursing
Scientific Methodology and Biostatistics
Objectives and Contextualisation
INTRODUCTION
Health professionals in the community and in general hospitals, as well as those attached to psychiatric institutions, are often faced with patients with symptoms of emotional disorders that do not require treatment by a psychiatrist, but are important enough to force significant intervention on the part of the nursing professional.
The professional familiar with the behavior patterns and the advantages and disadvantages of the different interventions will be able to develop their role with ease, understanding and effectiveness.
Mental health nursing aims to promote and maintain behaviors that contribute to the integrity of patients (the patient can be a person, a family, a group or the entire community).
The nurse will use the nursing process, a nursing decision-making system that includes assessment, planning, execution, and evaluation. The process guides the nurse to provide quality care to the client and family in any setting.
By following this process, the nurse can develop effective strategies to respond to the current and potential needs of clients and families, promoting mental health.
GENERAL AND SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Identify the theories, concepts, and research used by mental health nurses.
Analyze the effects of the context (cultural, legal, ethical, geographical, among others) on the mental health of clients (individuals, groups, or families) and on mental health nursing practice.
Discuss the relationship of psychosocial factors, physiological states, and mental illness.
Describe how the nursing process is used in mental health problems
Analyze the ethical and legal problems involved in mental health nursing practice.
Identify people, familiesand populations vulnerable to mental illness.
Prevent and correct mental disorders and their sequelae and promote mental health in society, the community and in living individuals.
Competences
- "Demonstrate an understanding of people without prejudice: consider physical, psychological and social aspects, as independent individuals; ensure that their opinions, values and beliefs are respected and guarantee their right to privacy, through trust and professional secrecy."
- Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
- Apply the main foundations and theoretical and methodological principles of nursing.
- Base nursing interventions on scientific evidence and the available media.
- Demonstrate that the interactive behaviour of the person is understood according to their gender, social group or community, within a social and multicultural context.
- Design systems for curing aimed at people, families or groups and evaluate their impact, making any necessary changes.
- Make changes to methods and processes in the area of knowledge in order to provide innovative responses to society's needs and demands.
- Offer technical and professional health care and that this adequate for the health needs of the person being attended, in accordance with the current state of scientific knowledge at any time and levels of quality and safety established under the applicable legal and deontological rules.
- Plan and carry out nursing care aimed at people, families and groups orientated to health results and evaluate the impact of them using clinical and care practice guides describing the processes for the diagnosis, treatment or cure of a health problem.
Learning Outcomes
- Acquire and use the necessary instruments for developing a critical and reflective attitude.
- Analyse nursing interventions justifying them with scientific evidence and/or expert opinions that support them.
- Apply the nursing process to offer and guarantee the wellbeing, quality and safety of the people receiving the care.
- Comprehensively assess health situations using tools such as physical examination, laboratory tests and nursing interview.
- Describe the different theoretical models of nursing care.
- Identify guides for clinical and care practice related to caring for the health demands of people during the whole life cycle and in changes which may occur.
- Identify nursing care actions that respect the principles of ethical responsibility, fundamental rights and responsibilities, diversity and democratic values.
- Identify the different stages of the nursing process and its specific application as a response to people with changing health.
- Identify the factors that determine health and the problems related to surroundings to be able to offer care to people with different situations of health and illness as members of a community.
- Identify the guides for clinical practice specific to each stage of the life cycle.
- Identify the importance of cultural competence in nursing care.
- Identify the most prevalent mental health problems, their clinical manifestations and influencing factors, as well as specific nursing care.
- Indicate measures to measures to ensure respect for opinions, beliefs and values without passing value judgements.
- Propose measures to ensure respect for opinions, beliefs and values without passing value judgements.
- Resolve nursing problems and collaboration problems using clinical histories, applying nursing methodology and current standardised languages.
Content
Topic 1: Social vulnerability. Donate in a situation of career and mental pathology. He paid attention to the immigrant, cultural diversity and its importance in the approach from the S.M. Estrès de l'immigrant, Dol migratori, Sd.de Ulisses, post traumatic stress in refugees.
Topic 2: Bulling, causes, concept, symptoms. Tipus. Labor mobing, tractament, prevented. Child and adolescent suicide, statistics, approach, accompanying nurse.
Topic 3: Gender violence. Sexual abuse in childhood and adult stage. Post-traumatic stress/Dissociative identity disorder post abuse.
Topic 4: Food disorders, classification. Diagnostics nurses and interventions.
Topic 5: Organization of the mental health organization. Coercive measures: concept, utilities, legal considerations for nursing. Concept of Verbal Approach, Pharmacological Containment, Porta Tancada, Contencions Mecàniques. Legal aspects. home hospitalization
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Elaboration of works/Personal studies/Reading of articles and information of interest. | 49 | 1.96 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 7, 10, 11, 8, 6, 13, 14, 15, 4 |
| Theoretical classes | 24 | 0.96 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 7, 10, 11, 8, 6, 13, 14, 15, 4 |
Theoretical sessions with discussion of practical cases. They are carried out through face-to-face sessions in the classroom, in which the student actively participates to deal with a specific topic through the exchange of partial information and the collective analysis of this information, in order to analyze mental health problems. Throughout the theoretical sessions, the student acquires skills to face problems, prioritize and search for information, make decisions and evaluate their activity.
Note: 15 minutes of a class will be reserved within the calendar established by the center or by the degree for students to fill in the surveys to evaluate the performance of the teaching staff and the evaluation of the subject or module.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prova de coneixements | 50% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 7, 10, 11, 8, 6, 13, 14, 4 |
| Team work | 25% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 10, 11, 8, 6, 13, 14, 15, 4 |
This course does not include the single devaluation system.
The assessment will consist of 3 assessment moments:
1. Knowledge test that will account for 50% of the subject grade
2. Group work, will consist of the analysis of a clinical case related to the topic that will be worked on that day in the session. The weight will be 25% of the subject grade.
3. Group work on the narration of a situation: will syndicate watch a film/read a book, etc., which will be worked on as a group in class. The weight will be 25% of the subject grade.
Attendance is mandatory, failing 2 of the activities will result in the subject being suspended. Those students who do not attend 75% of the total sessions of the subject will be considered non-evaluable.
Disrespect for classmates or teachers will not be tolerated. Nor will homophobic, sexist or racist attitudes be tolerated. If these attitudes are detected in any of the students, they will be graded with a suspension of the subject.
Any indication of plagiarism or dishonesty will result in the suspension of the course.
Recovery: students who have not passed the subject through continuous assessment and who:
- having attended at least 75% of the sessions
- That they have a positive assessment in group work and in the work of narrating the situation
-who have passed all the assessment tests
They can be submitted for a final make-up test.
Qualifications:
According to agreement 4.4 of the Government Council 17/1172010 of the evaluation regulations, the grades will be:
Suspended: 0 to 4.9
Approved: 5 to 6.9
Notable: 7 to 8.9
Excellent: 9 to 10
The subject will be considered Not Evaluable when the student has not presented sufficient evaluation evidence:
1-Not having attended at least 75% of the sessions
2-That they have a negative assessment in group work and in the work of narrating the situation
3-they have not passed all the evaluative tests
Honors will only be assigned to those students who, being among the best grades in the group and within the grade range between 9 and 10, accredit the exercise of other activities such as attendance at student congresses, congresses of nursing, congresses, where nursing students can attend.
Bibliography
Considering that one of the general skills that the student is expected to acquire is to develop strategies for independent learning, no bibliography is specified. The student must become competent in the search and management of information.
Software
It is not necessary to have any computer program for this subject.
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TE) Theory | 301 | Catalan | annual | morning-mixed |