2025

Models and techniques for assessment and family intervention

Name: Models and techniques for assessment and family intervention
Code: ENF14466M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/162 hours
Scientific Area: Nursing

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

The Curricular Unit intends to provide students with an understanding of the conceptual models that guide intervention in family health nursing and apply different instruments to systematize the assessment of the family system.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

• Understand conceptual models that guide nursing intervention in family health;
• Apply different instruments to systematize the evaluation of the family system;
• Perspect the care process in collaboration with the family.

Contents

1. Individual and family as care partners;
2. Calgary family assessment and intervention models;
3. Nursing care based on strengths;
4. Family assessment instruments (eg genogram, ecomap, link map, family research, questionnaires, scales, interviews, focus group)
5. Collaborative intervention techniques: Family interview, typology, specific phases/Motivational interview/Participatory dynamics/Family conferences, among others / Network intervention;
6. Family Health Nursing Process: Clinical judgment and decision making/Care areas/diagnoses/interventions.

Teaching Methods

In the teaching of the planned program, methodologies that stimulate the acquisition of knowledge and skills by the students will be selected, making them responsible for the teaching-learning process, based on research, reflection, critical questioning and continuous analysis, properly guided and framed in the teaching sessions. and tutorial guidance.
Individual and group work spaces will also be created, within the scope of each block of subjects, using guided reading techniques, classroom debates and bibliographic research.
The pedagogical methodology used in this Course Unit includes the use of advanced technological resources, namely digital environments and technological platforms applied to training and simulation.

Assessment

The assessment of the course unit includes both group and individual components, in order to ensure a balanced evaluation of the competencies acquired:
? Group work (one to three students) applying a family analysis model to the study of a family. This assignment, which includes a written report, accounts for 50% of the final grade.
? Oral presentation with individual discussion of the family study. The presentation and discussion correspond to 50% of the final grade.
The final grade is calculated as the average of the two assessment components.
Examinations are conducted in accordance with the academic regulations.