IN31C2D - MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROLOGICAL NURSING

• Define Mental Health by contextualizing it in the national and European
scenario
• Describe the historical evolution of theoretical models, laws and the
organization of psychiatric care
• Learn the foundations of relational dynamics in nursing care, relating to
the patient
mental health and his living environment, to plan nursing care and be
responsible for it.
• Describe the tools necessary for conscious management of the
communicative-relational aspects
in the relationship with the patient, with the family and with the
treatment team.
• Describe the historical evolution of theoretical models, laws and the
organization of psychiatric care
• Recognize pharmacological therapies - drugs and their expected and
unwanted effects
• Describe the most current theoretical orientations in psychiatry and
clinical psychology (neuro-biological, psychodynamic, social, etc.) and the
interpretative models of mental suffering
• Recognize psychological suffering in illness stories
• Identify the main defense mechanisms
• Identify the care strategies and management methodologies (interview
techniques, assessment tools, no restraint approaches, etc.) that can be
adopted to deal with the person's mental suffering (aggression,
resistance to therapeutic treatments, etc.)
• Describe the main psychopathological pictures, including problems of
pathological dependence and the most frequently used drugs
(indications, side effects, toxicity)
Outline the legislative, ethical and deontological aspects and health
policy directions regarding mental health
• Identify the clinical aspects that influence the phases of the patient's
diagnostic therapeutic care path (PDTA) (reception, taking charge,
treatment/planning, discharge/follow-up)
• Recognize the need to activate and involve the patient's socioemotional
network in the treatment project also through therapeutic
education and rehabilitation programs
• provide the foundations of psychopathology and history of psychiatry
and a basic knowledge of the physiopathology, clinic, nosographic
classification and treatment of the main psychiatric pathologies. An
overview of the organization of local psychiatric care will also be
provided.
• Provide systematic and updated knowledge in the various sectors of
psychological disciplines, as well as biological (molecular, metabolic,
physiological) and clinical (neurological, psychiatric,
neurobiological) which are the basis of knowledge on psychic processes,
and of the anthropological, epistemological and ethical disciplines
fundamental for understanding the cultural and ethical dimension of
interventions for the promotion, maintenance and recovery of health and
well-being conditions
within public and private institutions for individuals at all stages of the life
span.
• provide operational and application skills, including psychodiagnostics
and psychological consultancy, for people affected by physical and
mental, cognitive and emotional disorders, skills and
updated tools for the communication and management of information,
experiences and professional skills in the field of direct services to
people, groups, organizations and communities in the specific field of
competence and for the exchange of general information