{"id":10168,"date":"2024-02-25T21:19:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T21:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astraforumfoundation.org\/psihichno-zdrave-i-komunikatzia-med-spez\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T15:06:49","slug":"psihichno-zdrave-i-komunikatzia-med-spez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astraforumfoundation.org\/en\/psihichno-zdrave-i-komunikatzia-med-spez\/","title":{"rendered":"Training on the Topic: Mental Health and Communication for Medical Specialists"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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TRAINING ON THE TOPIC: MENTAL HEALTH AND COMMUNICATION FOR MEDICAL SPECIALISTS<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Professional stress is one of the biggest problems of modern society. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines it as the \u201cdisease of the 21st century\u201d. The number of those who work in healthcare and suffer from \u201cburnout\u201d is ever increasing and nobody works on the topic in our country. Recently, we observe an increase of professional burnout of young doctors, including students in medical universities. \u201cAstra Forum\u201d Foundation underlines that care after young professionals\u2019 mental health creates prerequisites for improved quality of healthcare after patients. Thus, thanks to our initiatives, we not only support medical experts in coping with stress, but also contribute for improving their work\u2019s quality that has positive effect on patients\u2019 health.<\/p>

Namely that is why \u201cAstra Forum\u201d Foundation for more than a year has been directing its efforts towards coping with this significant problem via initiatives in several directions.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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On the 23rd \u2013 24th of February 2024 \u201cAstra Forum\u201d foundation arranged a tuition for medical specialists aimed at the topic for improving their mental health and effective communication with patients and colleagues. It was joined by the doctors who are ambassadors of the cause with whom the Foundation has been working for already almost a year, as well as health specialists that are interested in the topic, including students of medicine. What unites them is their attitude towards the topic and their desire to improve the work environment so that it does not harm the health of those who work in it. We managed to exchange ideas for initiative\u2019s development.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The event started with opening and welcoming words by the chairman of the Foundation \u2013 Momchil Baev, doctor of medicine. He thanked everyone that they found a reason and travelled the distances from various points in the country in order to meet and share these days and experiences together.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The \u201cget-to-know\u201d session was the first for the day. During it each and everyone of these had the opportunity to present two things about him- or herself from personal and two \u2013 from professional point of view. Also, they shared what is good mental health to them and what they do to keep its good status.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Thus, the lecturers in the hall \u201cmelted the ice\u201d between themselves and managed to very quickly find cross points with everyone else. Once again it was proven that people who share one and the same point of view on particular topic find each other.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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During the second session, with host Lyudmila Paneva, the participants had the opportunity to review the communication and its impact. Lucy managed to prove them how through words they use could influence their relatives, friends, colleagues. Sometimes it is not important only what you say, but how you present it to your collocutors. Also, she demonstrated them that one should first change him- or herself and then try to do it with the others. Via short questionnaire everyone defined his own communication style \u2013 analytical, action, friendly or expressive.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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After the enchanting session on communication towards oneself, we continued the day and the program with Mariana Petrova. The topic about issues and solutions in mental health and quality of life of medical specialists, gave the floor to the participants. During the session, the medical specialists had the opportunity to talk about mental health and communication on the topic in their community. They worked together while creating \u201cTree of problems and solutions\u201d and each and every of them in advance wrote down what were the difficulties and hindrances in communication with his colleagues on this topic, and then what could be the solutions for improvement. All the points of view were discussed and grouped in individual categories that were created and united by the participants themselves. This way, we demonstrated the homogeneity of difficulties of everyone, irrespective that they have different majors, from various healthcare institutions and towns. The main groups of problems that were shaped up were:<\/strong><\/p>