39561 - Mental Health Nursing (BO1)

Learning outcomes

in this course:

• We will define mental health by contextualizing it in the national and international scenario
• We will describe the historical evolution of theoretical models, laws and the organization of psychiatric care
• We will approach the concepts of Mental Health, Stigma, Chronicity, Resilience and Recovery in the context of mental pathologies
• We will think about the meaning of Stigma, Prejudice and discrimination in people's lives, and the influence of the behavior of care staff and care givers.
• We will approach the most frequent pharmacological treatments with particular attention to nursing skills with respect to their clinical use
• We will identify care strategies and management methodologies (interview techniques, assessment tools)
• We will identify the clinical nursing aspects that influence the phases of the patient's Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Care Path (PDTA) (reception, taking charge, treatment/planning, discharge/follow up)
• We will address the structure of the Department of Mental Health (DSM) and how the therapeutic/assistance path is structured within it
• We will address the legislative, social, ethical and deontological aspects and the health policy directions regarding mental health
• We will describe assistance to people with difficulties in the main psychopathological conditions including pathological addiction problems
• We will describe the potential of communication and relationships in crisis, in urgency and emergency and in aggression.
• We will describe cooling and de-escalation techniques.
• We will mention ASO and TSO, restraints.
• History of mental health care, Epidemiology, The DSM and mental health workers, Reception, role of nursing functions and skills, taking charge and territorial pathways, personalized therapeutic project, case management,

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliografia essenziale:

• P.Bdon, C.Palumbo, S.Saluzzi, Assistenza infermieristica in salute mentale. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 2023

Bibliografia per ulteriori approfondimenti specifici in accordo con il docente:

• Barelli P. Spagnolli E., Nursing di salute mentale, Carocci Faber, 8^ ristampa 2019.
• Antonio Lasalvia, Lo stigma dei disturbi mentali. Guida agli interventi basati sulle evidenze. Giovanni Fioriti Editore 2023
• Nico Landi. Umana competenza. La professione infermieristica nella salute mentale di comunità: principi base, teorie, attitudini, competenze. Nico Landi 2023
• Regione Emilia Romagna. L’approccio dialogico in Emilia Romagna. Strumenti per praticare l’integrazione nel sistema dei servizi. RER 2023
• Pio Lattarulo. Bioetica e deontologia professionale. Mc Graw Hill 2021
• Roger Mucchielli, Apprendere il counseling, ed. Erickson, 2020
• Tamagnini G., Nursing in area psichiatrica. Il paziente schizofrenico. 2° edizione, Alpes 2018
• William R. Miller e Stephen Rollnick, Il colloquio motivazionale. Aitare le persone a cambiare. Erickson editore Terza edizione 2014.
• M. Balestrieri et al. Manuale di psichiatria Il pensiero scientifico editore 2014
• Raucci V. Spaccapeli G., Fondamenti di infermieristica in salute mentale, Maggioli editore, 2013.
• Liberman R.P., Il recovery dalla disabilità. Manuale di riabilitazione psichiatrica, Giovanni Fioriti Editore, 2012.
• Tatarelli R., Manuale di psichiatria e salute mentale per lauree sanitarie, Piccin, 2009
• Babini V.P. Liberi Tutti. Manicomi e psichiatri in Italia: una storia del novecento. Il Mulino, 2009. Bologna
• Fioritti A., Leggi e salute mentale. Panorama europeo delle legislazioni di interesse psichiatrico, Centro Scientifico Editore, 2002.
• Rino Rumiati, Davide Pietroni. La negoziazione. Psicologia della trattativa: come trasformare un conflitto in opportunità di sviluppo personale, organizzativo e sociale. Raffaello Cortina Editore 2001.
  

Teaching methods

Lectures, interaction with students, slides and films to support teaching, case development.

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Teaching tools

PC and video projection of slides and films.

Office hours

See the website of Andrea Gargiulo