The project aim was to equip MHPs with innovative educational tools to enhance their resilience, wellbeing, the level of knowledge, skills, and resources from the scope of Positive Psychology, the science of happiness, and its applications in Adult and VET Education through Positive Counselling. More specifically, the target groups of this project were (1) Mental healthcare professionals (Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Counsellors, Mental Health Nurses, Occupational and Speech Therapists), who are at high risk of burnout due to increased work-related stressors because of the pandemic and the type of their profession, (2) VET Providers (adult trainers, social workers, educators, psychologists, counselors, coaches), who work with mental health professionals and (3) Indirect target group are the end-users (people who receive mental healthcare services).
The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège (CHUL) is a public and pluralistic University Hospital. As a university hospital, the CHUL has different missions including "educational missions" for therapist students and staff, and "societal missions" with several communication actions, awareness-raising and screening campaigns, which reflects CHUL concern for therapeutic education and health prevention. This project aims to increase the resilience competencies of mental health professionals (MHPs) in Europe, through non formal distance-learning training. Specifically, the project focus on factors that buffer the effects of work-related stressors on MHPs, who are at risk of burn-out and compassion fatigue, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This project also aims to boost their psychological resilience against work adversities and enhance thus the quality of mental – health care provision. Training MHPs in techniques that help them face the adversity in a way that promotes personal and professional growth will be of great help not only for them but also for the patients they work with perfectly responded to the missions that the CHUL tries to implement every day with the aim of formation and prevention.