Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Corso di laurea in infermieristica - Sede di Modena

Abstract

IESA PROJECT, a straight-family Insertion Supported for Adults with mental disorders, is an old way of rehabilitation, used by nations of the European Union and Extra-European Nations, and not so well known in Italy, but it is spreading slowly. The method was introduced because it was considered very important for the adults’ rehabilitation with psychiatric diseases and not only. The interesting fact is how one family can accommodate a certain type of patient with a social debilitating label back on track and rehabilitate what many believed to be lost. 
In a first time, I evaluated this topic with “GOOGLE BOOK” by using the key word “GEEL”. In the other search words that I tried, I did not find satisfactory results. I found many documents, books and conference texts and afterwards I was guided to the LESA official Italian and European website. 
What is most evident to the eye, of nursing interest has been how the patient was at first wary, then he/she lets himself/herself be convinced to try this new type of rehabilitation. But above all, the nurse mediator as a "bridge" between realities that before then had never met had such a central role, as it is already stated at the beginning of the project how fundamental our figure is as a guide and reference point.
This social rehabilitation frame becomes very important today where depression is a real phenomenon even with the young and where chronic diseases are in continuous increase. The project should have greater visibility and should be more known and proposed more frequently from the doctors. Nursing should have more importance, with the creation of a team that can cover up more areas and involve many more families, and a nurse that is dedicated to this type of rehabilitation, as that of what happens in Germany and in Belgium.