🇨🇭Swiss Peer🇨🇭

The main focus on these 3 days where two topics. Empowerment and Stigma with mental illnesses. Empowerment A term and a concept I am still having problems to understand and to put in place in a clinic. Don’t know why, I read the explanation of it but it somehow doesn't have synched in yet. Nonetheless I will try to explain, maybe then I will also start to understand the concept ;-) The concept of empowering the patient is trying to give autonomy and self termination back to the ill person. The clinic is trying to give responsibility back to the patient with the goal, that the patient is empowered and is able to cope after the time in the clinic. Another goal is also, that patients are enabled to break through the circle of being readmitted over and over again. The Peer is trying to help in this context to search with the patient for resources that a currently covered up due to the crisis. An example of empowerment in my time in the clinic was my involvement with medication. I was f...