Hélène Givron
About
Biography
Hélène Givron is a clinical psychologist with a doctorate in biomedical sciences. She is a lecturer and educational coordinator at the University of Namur.
She works in the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Medicine. There, she teaches (inter)professional communication in healthcare to bachelor's students in medicine and pharmaceutical sciences and to master's students in nursing sciences.
Faculties/Departments/Services
Faculté de médecine
- Membre
Département de psychologie
- COPEDA
Research institutes
Transitions
- Membre
Organs
Domains of expertise
Expertise in teaching professional communication in healthcare:
- trained in simulation-based teaching
- trained by EACH (International Association for Communication in Healthcare) in teaching communication skills to a range of healthcare professionals in French and English
External responsibilities
- Member of the Sifem ‘Professional Communication in Healthcare’ group: https://www.sifem.net/fr/communication-professionnelle-en-sante
- FMER Collaborator (Family Medicine Education Research Group Mc Gill): Collaborators | Family Medicine Education Research (fmer-remf.ca)
- Member of the Transitions Research Institute at UNamur
Degrees
- Doctoral thesis in Biomedical Sciences on ‘Medical students’ attitudes towards learning professional communication in healthcare’ (UNamur)
- Certificate in ‘Hypnosis and brief therapy’ (IGB, Paris)
- Master's degree in Adult Clinical Psychology (TCC) at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), dissertation on mindfulness and emotional regulation (Moïra Mikolajczak)
- Introductory training in NVC (NVC, Belgium)
- Participation in a mindfulness cycle (UCLouvain)
2025-2026
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Pratiques collaboratives : Communication en équipe et relation soignant-soigné [MINFM108]
2023-2024
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Pratiques collaboratives : Communication en équipe et relation soignant-soigné [MINFM108]