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Abstract

In this report it is presented and discussed the professional and the personal developments that resulted from the realization of an internship in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, which focused three very specific and complementary topics. In terms of adult crisis intervention, this work addressed the problematic of how to promote the mental health of a patient/family. The study that was realized involved patients with severe mental health diseases and consisted in the definition of suitable therapeutic relationships and of therapeutic activities to endorse the patient/family mental health. In this scope, a case study was investigated and presented at work for other health professionals as a contribution for their education in nursing. In what concerns to psychogeriatrics, a special program was developed and implemented with hospitalized patients so as to promote self-caring and self-esteem in them. Such program consisted in training the patients to realize several basic daily activities. In this scope, some sessions of the course on Education for Health were attended that not only allowed to fully understand this problematic, but also to manage much better such limitations. Moreover, a single session course about the importance of health professional people in both the functional and psicosocial rehabilitation of the patients, as well as in training them for the realization of basic activities, was also ministered to a group of health professionals. Finally, regarding to the endorsement of better life styles, diagnosis and preventions, a few actions were taken to promote healthy life styles, and thus mental health, of both the patients and their families. This was achieved with the realization of several psicoeducative sessions and with multiple psciotherapeutical actions, targeted for both the patients and their families/caretakers.

Date of Award	2015
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Paulo Seabra (Supervisor)