"Map Ourselves through Digital Storytelling": Pedagogical Tool in the Development of Self-Knowledge Skills on Advanced Practice Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Abstract

[EN] By creating digital stories people are encouraged to reminisce about events with an impact on their life and personal and professional development. This paper aims to determine nurses’ perspectives regarding a pedagogical tool – Digital StoryTelling (DST). Our qualitative study design used video focus groups involving 20 master students in mental health nursing during the academic year 2020/2021. Students highlighted the creative content of digital stories and their potential to develop self-awareness, socio-emotional regulation and interpersonal relationships. With regard to the barriers, the scarce digital literacy and the difficulty in putting emotion in the content of the stories stand out. Thus, a more individualized follow-up will be necessary, to help students. Further research may benefit from exploring how the needs of more diverse groups of users could be met through the DST tool.