Desenvolvimento da Relação de Ajuda enquanto Intervenção Psicoterapêutica de Enfermagem

Identifier:  TDX:3386

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX3386

Authors:  Joana Catarina, Ferreira Coelho

Abstract:
Introduction: In literature, professional helping relationship can be considered as a nursing intervention. However, it is important to know its characteristics, contents and procedures, in order to validate it as a nursing psychotherapeutic nursing. Aims: To develop and evaluate the content validity of the professional helping relationship as a nursing psychotherapeutic intervention, and to develop the tools which are the foundation for further evaluation of the effectiveness of the professional helping relationship in a clinical setting. Methods: This research was divided into four studies. The first study was a scoping review. The second study was a modified e-Delphi study. The third study was a psychometric study, in which cultural adaptation and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Nursing Outcome Classification (NOC) outcome 'Cognition' were carried out. The fourth study aimed to develop a scale for evaluating the quality of the therapeutic relationship. Finally, a manual for operationalising the helping relationship as a nursing intervention was prepared. Results: The studies made it possible to agree on the aim of the professional helping relationship, its assumptions and the key competences associated with the nurse for its performance, having been reached perfect consensus on empathy, understanding, the ability to not judge, honesty and the ability to listen. They also made it possible to consensualise the nursing focuses that can lead to nursing diagnoses liable to the prescription of professional helping relationship. The focuses that were more consensual were self-esteem, grief and anxiety. Conclusion: Reaching consensus on the content and procedures of the professional helping relationship, assumed as a nursing psychotherapeutic intervention, seems to be important to guide mental health nurses’ practice on the performance of nursing psychotherapeutic interventions.