{"id":149,"date":"2024-11-03T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/jamiualabi\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2024-12-24T03:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T01:04:56","slug":"week-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogi.savonia.fi\/jamiualabi\/esimerkkisivu\/mental-health-and-substance-abuse-nursing-internship\/learning-reflection\/week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEK 4 (MENTAL HEALTH)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my fourth week of internship, I focus on residents who use substance abuse and continue supporting my assigned patients. Using therapy care is important and helpful for patients who are addicts to substance abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes residents would want to use little substance abuse when they are alone or idle. Therefore, I developed a therapeutic relationship between the patients by showing empathy such as listening actively, showing that I do care and being nonjudgemental.  Also, I set up an individual plan with the patient by setting an achievable plan providing short- and long-term goals with the patients. I encourage the patients to start going to the gym and walk in nature if possible. We went on a walk together for quite a few times and the patient register for gym close the unit. Moreover, as an internship student, I managed to use family as a tool to assist the patient with the help of my mentor. Luckily for me, family relationships are important for the young person which impacted positively in the young person development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I used engagement in social activities to help patients with low mood. For example, one of my assigned patients was suddenly unhappy without telling reasons. My mentor and I decided to take the patient out to Hoplop playing ground for young people. We had a good time supporting the young person during this trip. After an hour, I asked the young person feelings, he felt better and happy all day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ASSIGNMENT FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUCSTANCE ABUSE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I planned material for new worker who will start working at my internship place next year. The new employee will start working in January 2025, one part of her work will be staff\u2019s wellness.  When workers are working with mental health problems, they meet hard situations and emotions with the patients. One phenomenon is that transferences come\u2019s between workers and patients.  Risk for wellness is that it causes hard emotions and difficulties for workers. Burn outs are so common and one of the points is how you handle your own emotions and patients\u2019 emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I planned with the boss of my internship place who is a psychotherapist to know how to understand the emotions of patients after every hard situation. They usually use lifeline stories to help customer in the beginning and sometimes throughout their stay in the unit. Also, social workers, parents, teachers, and kids themselves tell life happenings from their history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally, I think it would be very important use your own story from your life too when you are working in this kind of place where there are so many mental problems in the young people\u2019s mind. When you understand yourself better and your own emotions, it helps to be more objective when you are working. I left this idea for new worker who can use it when she starts working in the unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workers can write own story and keep it only with themselves or say it openly. They can reflect on hard situations with patients and find maybe some transferences. When workers understand own transferences and can talk about them, situations are not so difficult to handle anymore. For example, if you can not show your own emotions in safe, you can crate these safe feelings for you patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIFELINE TOOLS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AREA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n