TAKING CARE OF THE CAREGIVERS: FAMILY CARE.

Authors

  • J. González Varea
  • J. Armengol
  • I. Cuixart
  • H. Manteca
  • M. Carbonell
  • M. A. Azcón
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/eglobal.4.1.517
Keywords: cuidador, salud mental, familia, caregiver, mental health, family

Abstract

The primary care of a psychiatric patient represents a real challenge for the family environment, this situation causes that many of the families that play the caregiver role experience stressing and overwhelming feelings that can directly evoke physical and mental problems causing several types of emotional distress. In this communication named “Taking care of the caregivers: Family Care” we will make reference to the situation that emerges after the hospitalization of one of the family members in a psychiatric emergency unit and a thought about the actions that the psychiatrical nurses can and should take. This family atention includes a series of actions with a common goal: to be with the family in the disease process, to inform about the cares that have to be given to the patient, to clarify the doubts and adjust their expectances among a warm and kind family-nurse realtionship. The principal objective is the aproaching to the patient family as the primary attention focus by means of instruments that can help this aproach, the knowledge of the family structure, the most probable stressing factors and definitely to treat the whole family in a hospital scenario in order to detect the posible disfunctions.

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[1]
González Varea, J. et al. 2005. TAKING CARE OF THE CAREGIVERS: FAMILY CARE. Global Nursing. 4, 1 (May 2005). DOI:https://doi.org/10.6018/eglobal.4.1.517.
Issue
Vol. 4 No. 1 (2005): #6 - Mayo
Section
Administración-Gestión-Calidad

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