Bisogni di cura di sé nei contesti sanitari : come individuarli, come leggerli, come accompagnarli

In light of a continuing education intervention (entitled \u201cOn the other side\u201d) conducted with a multi-professional group at a Northern Italian hospital, this paper offers a reflection on educational needs analysis for healthcare professionals. This process has been extensively investigated, including in the context of healthcare training, leading to the call for a multi-method approach to developing professionals\u2019 competencies in the interest of optimizing their patients\u2019 health and quality of life. However, when professionals\u2019 deepest inner need is for self-care to help them cope with the perceived heavy demands of clinical practice, educators may usefully adopt the phenomenological approach, which involves bracketing, the ability to see, taking responsibility and attending to professionals\u2019 emotional experience. The analysis of professionals\u2019 self-care needs should be viewed as a continuous process, to be implemented on an ongoing basis throughout the entire educational intervention, and as a practice that itself requires a caring attitude