Mental Health Patients’ and Intoxicant Abusers’ Care (7 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Info opintojaksosta + Mitä on mielenterveys? (2h)
Masennus, Kaksisuuntainen mielialahäiriö (2h)
Psykoosisairaudet, persoonallisuushäiriöt (2h)
Päihteet ja riippuvuuden hoito (2h)
Mielenterveys- ja päihdetyö + Stigma (2h)
Mielenterveys- ja päihdetyön palvelujärjestelmä(2h)
Kriisit ja traumat (2h)
Meilenterveys- ja päihdeongelmien enaltaehkäisty (2h)
Perheenmielenterveys (2h)
Hoidon suunnittelu, toteutus ja arviointi (2h)

TENTTI (2h)

Objective

The student:

· Masters mental health promotion as the starting point for all mental health work
· Knows the mental health and substance abuser care service system and can work in multi-professional networks
· Can identify the needs of mental health and substance abuse patients, address problems and guide the patients to appropriate care, record the treatment needs, plan and implement treatment, assess its effects and draw the necessary conclusions.
· Identifies key mental disorders and knows the starting points for their treatment
· Identifies the treatment needs and starting points of patients of different ages
· Can operate in the nursing of mental health care and substance abuser patients by promoting occupational and patient safety
· Understands the importance of ethical guidelines, values, principles and laws as guiding factors in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse patients
· Can use mental health and substance abuse treatment methods in accordance with the principles of recovery orientation
· Understands the importance of treatment relationships and work guidance, and can support and guide the patient and their family members
· Know how to administer different modes of biological treatment safely and effectively, including pharmacotherapy, and how to provide psychosocial care in the treatment of mental health and substance abuse patients
· Understands that a crisis is part of a person’s normal development, and can define the needs of trauma-focused care
· Understand the importance of expertise by experience in the development of comprehensive treatment

Content

Contents

Basics of mental health nursing
· Concept of positive mental health
· Mental health in society and components of mental health
· Care-related interaction (attitudes, ethics, professional interaction)
· Service system expertise
· National and international projects that aim to promote mental health
· Process of involuntary treatment, seeking treatment voluntarily
· An empowering approach to work
· Facing a psychotic patient
· Crisis work
· Motivational interview and mini-intervention
· Referring patients to treatment
· Psychoactive medications
· Common mental disorders and how to diagnose and treat them
· Addictions
· The health effects and excessive use of alcohol
· Common narcotic substances, how to identify their usage

Post-pregnancy and postpartum period
· Promoting mental health during maternity
· Mental health assessment during pregnancy and after childbirth
· Identifying and treating postpartum depression
· Building an attachment relationship between mother and child

Children, adolescents and their families
· Childhood development and mental health
· Common mental health problems of children and adolescents
· Family support

The elderly
· Common mental health challenges and disorders of the elderly
· Substance abuse problems of the elderly

Materials

Hämäläinen, Kanerva, Kuhanen, Schubert & Seuri. 2017. Mielenterveyshoitotyö. Sanomapro. Sivut 18-101 ja 139-339

Lönnqvist, J., Marttunen, M., Henriksson, M., Partonen, T., Aalberg, V. & Seppälä, O. 2017. Psykiatria. [Helsinki]: Kustannus Oy Duodecim.
- Mielenterveyden häiriöiden diagnostiikka ja luokittelu
- Mielenterveyden häiriöt

Aalto, M., Alho, H. & Niemelä, S. 2018. Huume- ja lääkeriippuvuudet. [Helsinki]: Kustannus Oy Duodecim.

Mielenterveys ja päihdehoitotyön Käypä hoito -suositukset

Teaching methods

Aktivoiva luento, itsenäisiä tehtäviä, ryhmätehtäviä, tentti

Exam schedules

Tentti 6.10. klo 8-10, uusintatenttiajankohdasta keskusteltava erikseen!

Completion alternatives

Keskusteltava opettajan kanssa

Student workload

22h aktivoivaa luentoa
10h prekliinistä harjoittelua (100 % läsnäolo)
2h tentti
27h Kehittämishankkeista käytäntöön -tehtävä
40 h Stigama-tehtävä sekä palvelujärjestelmätehtävä
88h tenttiin lukeminen