Alessandro Guidali
A. Guidali - Complexity and new challenges in the encounter with the Other
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Alessandro is a clinical nurse specialist in mental health at the cantonal socio-psychiatric organisation (OSC); within the CAS Health and Migration he is external lecturer of module 4 'Mental distress and mental health in the migrant population'.
What do you do professionally and what is your position within the CAS Health and Migration: an interprofessional challenge?
I have been working for 22 years as a mental health and psychiatry nurse at the OSC (at the Mendrisiotto Psychosocial Service) and have been involved in training for 18 years in parallel. My passion for ethno-psychiatry and transcultural psychiatry has been with me for a long time; I currently see asylum seekers at the Federal Asylum Centre in Chiasso for their first psychiatric assessment.
In the CAS Health and Migration: an Interprofessional Challenge I will deal with the mental health of migrants, their psychosocial problems, and the recognition of and approach to mental distress and disorder, contemplating the cultural aspects that influence mutual understanding and treatment.
From a clinical point of view in your opinion what competences will be developed within the CAS?
Transcultural clinical skills will refer to three levels of reflection and development: the person, the caregiver and the social and healthcare environment. By attending the CAS, it will be possible to reflect on one's own value system and its influence in the encounter with the Other; to understand the repercussions of the migratory pathway and cultural aspects in the specific context of mental health; to reflect on the social situation of migrants, on the meaning of psychic distress and on the modalities of therapeutic intervention; finally, to learn about the complexity of transcultural clinical skills.
As a nurse, what message would you leave to future course participants in your profession?
Our professions require us to deal with suffering, be it physical or psychic; we need an interdisciplinary approach to deal with complexity and new challenges in the encounter with the Other. Recognition and recognising oneself, venturing further afield, encountering worlds and traversing unexplored territories requires good tools, adequate baggage and a compass. Often the route is more important than the destination: that is how the journey becomes interesting.
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