Marseille 2007
Marseille 2007
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Abstract #206  -  HIV and Psyche: Training for Better Counselling and Care in AIDS Service Organisations
Session:
  6.38: Posters A (Poster) on Monday   in  Chaired by
Authors:
  Presenting Author:   Mr Karl Lemmen - Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., Germany
 
  Additional Authors:   
Aim:
AIDS Service Organisations (ASOs) have a growing number of clients and patients with neurologic and psychiatric problems. In these cases, counselling and nursing care must be adjusted to the patients changed behaviour. For example, confronted with patients showing affective disorders, a nurse who feels bound to a patient-oriented palliative care can easily come into conflict with this model when she or he has to decide something which is possibly against the patient's will. When dealing with borderline clients, counsellors have to realize that they cannot avoid splitting up the team und must come to understand the meaning of the process of countertransference.
 
Method / Issue:
In a six-part training course the DAH prepares staff-members of ASOs for working with HIV positive clients with neurologic and psychiatric disorders. They receive information about the symptoms of these disorders and the therapies possible, and they learn to overcome mental reservations against the cooperation with psychiatric institutions. Above all, the training focuses on the feelings generated in the counselling or nursing process. Taking them seriously and understanding them as a normal process of countertransference is seen as a considerable relief in the relationship to the clients.
 
Results / Comments:
Being able to stand back from ones own feelings in certain situations is an important step to professional counselling and nursing care for HIV positives with psychiatric disorders. Evaluation shows that the participants (up to now about 100 persons) are highly satisfied with the outcome of the training.
 
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