Edudialogue

The professional educator is the health professional who is responsible for promoting health in a holistic way, according to the World Health Organization definition previously interpreted . Compared to other health professionals, it does not have a niche of study, since it deals simultaneously with all aspects of health, as an "agent of help to the person, his family, the community to which he belongs" (National Association of Professional Educators - NAPE, 2015). Specifically, its role is to promote the responsibility of the person towards his/her own health, in fact, [it should not have the role of problem-solver, taking the place of those concerned, but that of approaching people by accepting them, understanding them, proposing and promoting those educational processes useful for change that will allow a positive personal growth, social inclusion as wide as possible, a well-being and quality of life to which all human beings have a right] (NAPE, 2015). In practice, it ...

Educators ' job is to lead people to freedom, but to achieve it is fundamental to do some meta-work. Without a continuous reflection on the own behaviour, there are high probabilities of affecting the patients with the own biases. In the following paragraph will be explained the biases of "labels" and "expectations" and the related phenomena of imposing the own point of view on patients. Will be later explained how to overcome these human tendencies with meta-cognition and the effort of listening to the others. The process of giving labels born in the cerebral function of categorization. It is a mechanism of quick processing of information, which aims to identify the main features of the object, event or person, in order to understand if it is dangerous or not (Abdai & Miklòsi, 2016). In the centuries this process developed from saving-life categories to more complex categories, which associate events' features to specific responses. The responses are b...

The emotional burnout, professional deformation and the decrease of professional stability level are important issues for workers in the field of care and education (Beregovaya et al., 2017). This topic interested also the European Union, which wants to contain the psychosocial risk of these workers (Pedrazza, 2018). A nxiety, depression or shame, often go unrecognized in healthcare providers, and they can affect their users (Irvine, 2017). In the following paragraph will be analysed why educators and care-providers are a risk population through the theory of the blog . Later will be pointed out how the burnout can be prevented through continuous training. The work of educators is to interact with the others in order to help them to achieve the skills for freedom and health . They have constantly to "play a role" of c are , compassion , competence , communication , courage and commitment (Bagley, Abubaker , & Sawyerr, 2018). Changing the personal behaviour for the ...