Course name:
Health Education and interpersonal communication
Course code:
6501127-3
Dr: Mohammed Ahmed Elawad
Dr: Faleh Saud Alyazidi
Health education with individual
Objective:
To know how to hold health education session with an individual.
Personal contact
Home visit
Personal letter
How are you I hope that you are benefited
from the
information that I gave you latter
Individual approach
Counseling
Steps of individual approach 1- Planning for visit
2- Conducting interview 3- follow-up
Counseling is a confidential dialogue between a client and health care provider aimed at enabling the client to cope with stress and take personal decisions related to disease.
Individual
(Needs information))
Counselor
(Provides information)
Counseling meeting
Individual
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Counselor
(Provides information)
Counseling meeting
Counseling is one of the
approaches most
frequently used in health education to help individuals
The purposes of counseling
1) Helping the person to identify his or her problem
2) Helping the person to discover the cause of the problem
3) Encouraging the person to look at several possible solutions to the problem
4) Encouraging the person to choose the most appropriate solution.
Elements of counseling (GATHER)
G Greet the client
A Ask him/her about the need
T Telling different options to solve the problem H Help the client to take voluntary decision
E Explain the chosen decision R Return for follow-up visit
Rules of counseling Good relationship Feelings
Needs Privacy
Confidentiality
Providing Information
Advantages of individual approach
Credible
Facilitate discussion
Motivational Influential
Disadvantages of individual approach
Expensive
Time consuming
Limited audience
Health education with group
Group health education:
Is an effective way of educating the community
1) Lectures (oral presentation)
2) Demonstrations (how to perform skills)
3) Discussions
Methods of group health education
Discussion:
1) Group discussion 2) Panel discussion 3) Symposium
4) Workshop 5) Seminar
6) Conferences 7) Brain storming 8) Others
Group discussion: About 6 -12 members are seating in a circle to discuss certain topic
Panel discussion
About 4 -8 qualified persons talk about a problem in front of a large audience
Symposium: Series of speeches on a selected topic and chair person makes summary at the end
Workshop
Consist of series of meeting with emphasis on individual work
Seminar: A group of people gathered to study a subject under the leadership of an expert
Conference: A group of people representing several organizations present two or more sides of their
problem
Brain storming: A type of small group interaction to introduce ideas
Examples of groups found in a community:
1) A family
2) Patients at a clinic 3) Youth in sport club 4) Friends in a journey 5) Workers in a factory 6) Farmers
