Nearly a hundred professionals have improved their psychological well-being in the six months that this benefit has been in operation.
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Part of the team in the consultation with a professional.
The Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital has launched a psychological support consultation for professionals who require it. This benefit began last February as another measure to improve care and humanize the attention to the more than 7,000 workers who carry out their work in this hospital.
The Mental Health service’s objectives, with this specific consultation, are to detect and treat problems related to the work situation, such as stress, burnout or attacks in the work context, among others, also mental health disorders that affect work performance, in addition to promoting psychological well-being, reducing the duration and severity of mental health problems and improving the recovery of workers.
The team formed by the psychiatrist José Guerrero and the clinical psychologists María Ángeles Hernández and Beatriz Machado has treated a hundred professionals in the six months of operation of this program, mainly with depression or anxiety.
The team formed by the psychiatrist José Guerrero and the clinical psychologists María Ángeles Hernández and Beatriz Machado has attended to a hundred professionals in the six months of operation of this program, mainly, with depression or anxiety, who are referred from different sources, either from the Occupational Medicine Service, from the service to which the worker belongs or from demand for this, or from mental health consultations.
These highly specialized professionals also receive professionals from the hospital itself and Primary Care who suffer attacks in their work area and request this type of support.
This innovative consultation is carried out on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, although there is always flexibility if the worker needs to be seen on Mondays or Fridays. The specialist José Guerrero, who is in charge of individual interventions, has pointed out that “these patients require continuous monitoring, which is why the activity of this consultation is constantly increasing, along with the knowledge, internally, of this new service. assistance.”
The head of service, Juan López, on the right, along with the block head, the psychologist and the psychiatrist. HVN Press.
World Mental Health Day
The hospital has among its strategic lines the promotion of the well-being of its professionals, both physical and mental. Tomorrow, October 10, World Mental Health Day is celebrated, which this year has as its motto ‘It’s time to prioritize mental health instead of work’.
The Mental Health service of the Granada hospital works in this area, not only on an individual level with this specific consultation, but also with a group approach with sessions taught by psychologists in the different services of the health center.
The Mental Health service of the Granada hospital works in this area, not only on an individual level with this specific consultation, but also with a group approach with sessions taught by psychologists in the different services of the health center.
Recently, clinical psychologists have carried out a ‘pilot’ group intervention in the Pulmonology service, with very satisfactory results for the professionals who have participated. In this session, attendees worked on tools to strengthen communication and interpersonal relationships, emotional regulation and stress management, aspects that are fundamental due to the characteristics of job performance based on the helping relationship and high job demands.
The head of the Mental Health service, Juan López Castillohas emphasized that “safe and healthy work environments can act as a protective factor for people’s mental health, hence the importance of reducing stressors in the workplace, awareness and training can help create spaces healthier and more inclusive.”
The head of the Mental Health block, Ángela Ruiz, encourages hospital professionals to participate in the extra-work activities included in the Humanization Plan, which, as she points out, “are provided by the hospital itself and promote personal well-being and, therefore, “improve physical and mental health”
The Granada hospital is committed to measures that protect and support Mental Health at work, in line with the World Health Organization, the prevention of psychosocial risks, the protection of mental health at work and support for people with mental health problems so that they can work and thrive in their daily work. To this end, this large team organizes activities aimed at patients with different disorders to improve their reintegration and work adaptation that are carried out from different devices such as therapeutic communities and day hospitals.
Humanization for the union of professionals
From the Nursing area, the head of the Mental Health block, Ángela Ruizencourages hospital professionals to participate in the extra-work activities included in the Humanization Plan, which, as it points out, “are provided by the hospital itself and promote personal well-being and, therefore, improve physical and mental health.”
The most significant projects that have become a link of belonging to the institution and a meeting point with other colleagues are a choir, which, in addition to rehearsing weekly, performs at the hospital’s main events and offers recitals to patients and professionals, and, most recently, a theater group. Tai chi sessions have also been consolidated with weekly workshops.