Work with People in Mental Crises

Degree: 1
Year: 3
Study program: Social work

Holder: Mojca Urek
Collaborator(s): Monika Bohinec, Amra Šabić

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Subject content:
  • Social theory on crisis.
  • Stress, life events and crises.
  • Characteristics and course of a psychotic crisis.
  • Early signs and prevention of crises.
  • Hearing voices.
  • Alternative views on hearing voices and innovative practices with voice hearers.
  • Maastricht's interview.
  • Suicides.
  • Forms of overcoming the crisis (hospital, crisis resolution at person's home, crisis teams, crisis centres).
  • The necessary ingredients of an interpersonal relationship in work with people suffering a crisis.
  • Recovery: concept, priciples, and recovery plan.
  • Contractual power in the time of acute crisis.
  • (Self)-advocacy and crisis: crisis cards, advance directives (living will).
  • Hospitalisation. 
  • Advocacy in closed psychiatry wards.
  • How the close ones experiences life with person suffering a mental crisis.
  • Family strategies: adaptation and transformation.
  • The family’s role in the study of new crises and the development of independence.
  • The principles of co-operation between experts and the family.
  • Risk analysis: principles, procedure, implementation.