Understanding psychiatric disorders for non-specialists
How to help adults with psychiatric disorders :
- The different models and visions of mental illness throughout history (place of the environment, culture, etc.)
- What is a hallucination, a delusion? How to position oneself as a professional?
- The “stress/vulnerability” model
- The role of “psychological monitoring” and medication: the couple of psychotherapy and biological treatment
- The role of the environment (social, family, emotional…) in the person’s illness
Pedagogical objectives
– Have a clear, rational and objective knowledge and vision of mental illness
– Understand and develop the capacity of empathy in order to be able to support people with psychiatric disorders
– How to observe the clinical signs that will be reported to the caregivers and supervisors
– Know how to identify errors in positioning as a professional