Christoph Abderhalden

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Christoph Abderhalden (* March 2, 1954 ; † March 10, 2013 in Bern ) was a Swiss psychiatric nurse, nursing scientist and director for nursing and education at the University Psychiatric Services Bern (UPD).

Life

Christoph Abderhalden was born the son of a lawyer. He initially trained as a nurse and then underwent further training as a specialist nurse for psychiatry. In 1976 he obtained the Swiss diploma as a specialist nurse for psychiatry. This was followed by further training as a nursing teacher and as a nursing expert higher technical training level II, each with successful completion in 1983. In 1999 Abderhalden acquired the academic title of Master of Nursing Science at the Rijksuniversiteit Maastricht , Netherlands , after spending a few semesters at the WE'G Further education center for health professions (today Careum further education) of the Swiss Red Cross in Aarau . In 2008, Christoph Abderhalden also received his doctorate from the Rijksuniversiteit Maastricht on the subject of “Risk of violence in acute wards”. After working as a psychiatric nurse in the Wil and Herisau clinics , Abderhalden worked as a nursing teacher in Herisau and a nursing expert in Embrach until 1998 . Until 2003 he worked at the WE'G training center for health professions of the Swiss Red Cross in Aarau. Since 2003 Abderhalden has worked as head of the research / development department for nursing and pedagogy at the University Psychiatric Services (UPD) in Bern. On May 1, 2010, he was appointed director of this department. In this role he was also entrusted with the cantonal psychiatry planning for the Canton of Bern. He also became a lecturer in psychiatric care at the University of Basel . Christoph Abderhalden died at the age of 60 as a result of cancer. He left a wife and son.

meaning

Christoph Abderhalden was co-editor of a textbook on psychiatric care. He was on the committee of the Three-Country Congress of Psychiatric Nursing and operated the networking of European psychiatric nursing as an active member of the European Violence in Psychiatry Research Group . He was part of the editorial team of the online journal for nursing science and mental health "zppg.eu", which has been published since 2007. He was the author of numerous and varied publications, so u. a. on the topics of aggression management in psychiatric care, primary care and suicidality. He was considered a thought leader for the inclusion of those affected in therapy planning and treatment as well as in the design of recovery, a further development of Aaron Antonovsky's salutogenesis approach . Abderhalden has advocated the establishment of patient-oriented care systems (primary care, primary nursing). For example, he helped develop the instrument for recording care systems IzEP and made it widely known. Like Hilde Schädle-Deininger , Abderhalden has had a major impact on psychiatric care in German-speaking countries. Abderhalden worked closely with Johann Behrens, who developed psychiatric care at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Abderhalden relied in his work on the nursing theory of Nancy Roper , Winifred Logan and Alison Tierney , which he made fruitful for psychiatric care.

Publications

As an author:

  • Psychiatric nursing and sociotherapy. Considerations on the job profile and job conception of psychiatric nursing. Recom, Basel 1986.
  • The systematic assessment of the short-term risk for patient violence on acute psychiatric wards. University Press, Maastricht 2008 (PhD thesis).
  • with Manfred Wolfersdorf: Did something go wrong? , in: PsychPflege 2012, 18, 2, pp. 62–63, ISSN 0949-1619.
  • https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-2002-33554

As editor:

  • with Dorothea Sauter, Ian Needham, Stephan Wolff: Textbook Psychiatric Care. Hans Huber, Bern 2004; 3rd edition 2011; therein: Christoph Abderhalden: Concept of care , pp. 43–56, collaboration with people with experience in psychiatry and support for self-help , pp. 159–181, Coping , pp. 682–696.
  • (Mithrsg. Of the German edition) Rachel Perkins, Miles Rinaldi: Getting life under control again. A guide to planning your own recovery. University Psychiatric Services, Bern 2010; 4th edition 2014.
  • with Sabine Hahn , Ian Needham, Michael Schulz, Susanne Schoppmann, Harald Stefan: “Psychiatric care networked”. With those affected and their families, in the care system, in research and development, in society. Lectures, workshops and poster presentations. 8th Dreiländerkongress Care in Psychiatry in Bern. University Psychiatric Services, Bern 2011.

literature

  • Obituary by Christoph Abderhalden. In: Care. Volume 26, Issue 2, 2013, p. 152.
  • Care mourns Christoph Abderhalden. In: The sister / the nurse. The leading specialist magazine for care. April 2013, p. 317.
  • Hubert Kolling (Ed.): Biographical lexicon on nursing history "Who was who in nursing history". Volume 7, hpsmedia, Nidda 2015, here: Contribution by Hubert Kolling to Christoph Abderhalden, pp. 11–15.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marianne Brieskorn-Zinke: Mental health, public health and the role of care. In: Christoph Abderhalden: Psychiatric care, mental health and recovery. 5th Three-Country Congress Care in Psychiatry in Bern, Ibicura, Oberostendorf 2008, pp. 15–23, see also web links.
  2. ↑ www.izep.info
  3. ↑ Michael Schulz laudatory speech for Johann Behrens , Annual Conference on Psychiatric Care 2015, p. 6
  4. ↑ Christine R. Auer: History of the nursing professions as a subject. The curriculum development in nursing education and training , here: Roper / Logan / Tierney nursing theory seen in connection with home private care, dissertation University of Heidelberg, academic supervisors Wolfgang U. Eckart and Rolf Verres , clinical examiner Günter H. Seidler , self-published 2008, pp. 97-107.
personal data
SURNAME Abderhalden, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychiatric nurse, nursing scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1954
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2013
Place of death Bern