2024
Mental Health Nursing
Name: Mental Health Nursing
Code: ENF14453L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Nursing
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
This UC contributes, through its programmatic contents, to understand the importance of mental health in the personal and professional development.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Learning goal
Understand the importance of mental health in the personal and professional development
Competences
• Understands the fundamental concepts of mental health, and its framing in the context of the National Health Service
• Understands mental health in the different stages of life, and the importance of individual, relation, and community factors in its protection and promotion
• Understands the process of adapting to crisis situations
• Understands the importance of self-knowledge to both personal and professional development, and to mental health
• Identifies strategies for promoting mental health at individual, family, and community levels
• Utilizes strategies for therapeutic communication, for problem solving, and for anxiety management, among others
Understand the importance of mental health in the personal and professional development
Competences
• Understands the fundamental concepts of mental health, and its framing in the context of the National Health Service
• Understands mental health in the different stages of life, and the importance of individual, relation, and community factors in its protection and promotion
• Understands the process of adapting to crisis situations
• Understands the importance of self-knowledge to both personal and professional development, and to mental health
• Identifies strategies for promoting mental health at individual, family, and community levels
• Utilizes strategies for therapeutic communication, for problem solving, and for anxiety management, among others
Contents
1. The concept of mental health
a. National Program for Mental Health
2. Mental Health individual, family, and community perspective
a. Mental health throughout life
i. Factors that influence mental health
ii. The importance of family to mental health
iii. The importance of the environment to mental health
b. Mental health indicators (anxiety, self-esteem, welfare, decision-making capacity)
c. Crisis Theory
3. Strategies for promoting mental health
a. Self-knowledge
b. Self-care and Mental Health
c. Communicational strategies
d. Coping strategies
e. Anxiety management
f. Problem-solving technique
g. Models for community intervention in mental health
a. National Program for Mental Health
2. Mental Health individual, family, and community perspective
a. Mental health throughout life
i. Factors that influence mental health
ii. The importance of family to mental health
iii. The importance of the environment to mental health
b. Mental health indicators (anxiety, self-esteem, welfare, decision-making capacity)
c. Crisis Theory
3. Strategies for promoting mental health
a. Self-knowledge
b. Self-care and Mental Health
c. Communicational strategies
d. Coping strategies
e. Anxiety management
f. Problem-solving technique
g. Models for community intervention in mental health
Teaching Methods
An expository and argumentative methodology will be used in theoretical classes to foster group discussion. We will also resort to scales of assessment that relate directly to mental health indicators.
In LP classes, mental health promotion strategies will be trained in simulated practice.
Assessment: students, in pairs, must record a video that aims to promote the mental health of a group or community of their choice; we will value the creativity of the production, the adopted communication strategy, and how the content relates to the syllabus (50%). There will also be a moment of individual assessment where the student will reflect on the meaning of mental health in their personal and professional development (50%).
In LP classes, mental health promotion strategies will be trained in simulated practice.
Assessment: students, in pairs, must record a video that aims to promote the mental health of a group or community of their choice; we will value the creativity of the production, the adopted communication strategy, and how the content relates to the syllabus (50%). There will also be a moment of individual assessment where the student will reflect on the meaning of mental health in their personal and professional development (50%).
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
