A classroom-based parent interview was designed and implemented in an\nundergraduate psychiatric mental health nursing class to fill the gap between\nnursing students and parents of child or adolescent patients with mental\nhealth issues faced during clinical. The goals of this learning activity were to\nincrease understanding of what parents experience when dealing with their\nchildâ??s mental health problems and to increase student engagement and attention.\nThe class using this learning activity consisted of three parts: 1) an\nassigned pre-class reading; 2) a mini-lecture; and 3) a parent interview presentation.\nStudents were pre-assigned a reading chapter and faculty-developed\ninterview questions. During the mini-lecture, important knowledge related to\nmental health care of children was assessed using CourseKey software. After\nthe mini-lecture, the parent guest speaker delivered her presentation about\nherself, her childâ??s strengths and abilities, her childâ??s mental health problems\nand their impact, and her familyâ??s strengths based on the interview question\nprompts for about 30 minutes, followed by 20 minutes of a Q & A session.\nThe set of interview questions was developed by faculty based on the competency\nquestions of the Child Behavior Check List. Despite some limitations,\nthis classroom-based parent interview using a flipped classroom model was\nfound to be a meaningful learning strategy by increasing student engagement\nand attention, increasing retention of knowledge learned in class, and filling\nthat gap in clinical.
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