A adolescência na transição para enfermeiro especialista em enfermagem de saúde mental e psiquiátrica

Abstract

The main objective of the following report is to allow some understanding of our professional nursing experience, in a specialized health unit which works with adolescents. Through its reading you may know the content of the developed activities in an internship which comprehended two modules. These two internship modules took place during the adolescent development phase. One aimed to promote the life styles, make the diagnosis and act on prevention, within the scope of the Consulta Externa and focused on the adolescent and their family. The other, which was optional, took place within the Hospital de Dia and within the intervention in the adolescents’ therapeutic group and their families. Both occurred in the Clinica da Juventude. As you read on, the interventions which aimed the adolescent’s health are uncovered and so are their family and/or significant persons. The interventions reached the three levels of prevention and their outcome was a gain to the population’s health, more specifically to the adolescent. These health gains were felt both by the adolescent and their family. Positive changes have been made in family relations, pairs relations and relations with other intervenients such as the teachers. Nurse’s interventions were developed in complex and demanding caring circumstances, in a communitarian specialized health unit as is the Clinica da Juventude. You will find here the theoretical contents that substantiate the specialized professional exercise in mental health and psychiatry nursing, as well as contents that clarify the developing phase of adolescence and its inherent characteristics. Through critical and reflexive movements, which emerge along the different chapters and that articulate with the development of specific professional skills, this report aims also, and therefore, to make known a work that is based in the use of the self in establishing a professional helping relationship, with resource to strategies and psychotherapeutical principles. This project was developed and funded using as resources the interview to the adolescent and the family and the work focused on the adolescent or on the adolescents’ group, and having as basis the team’s articulation. It consolidated into an advanced professional educational project which lead to the goals that were set and it built up to a professional and personal development experience

Date of Award	Mar 2011
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Paulo Seabra (Supervisor)