Mental illness and community mental health care

The Psychiatry Department of Chengda Hospital has been committed to the promotion and development of community psychiatry since the establishment of the mental health center affiliated to the hospital. By combining mental health centers, community rehabilitation centers and hospital psychiatry, a mental health care platform with the hospital as the core is formed, which extends mental health care services to the community in the form of family therapy. Through community rehabilitation therapy, patients with mental illness with relatively stable conditions are functionally rehabilitated and continue their medical treatment, helping them return to the community smoothly, and being able to take care of themselves and make rational and efficient use of medical care. Relatively reduce the burden on family members and society.

In addition, in recent years, the Ministry has also cooperated with the Department of Health and the Tainan Municipal Health Bureau to implement a number of community medical services by using the established community mental health service platform and in line with the public mental health policy. At present, the community mental medical service in the psychiatric department of Douliu Branch is also developing steadily.

Today, the progress of mental health care is not what it used to be, so we have made great progress in the treatment of mental diseases, especially in the treatment of major mental diseases such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Due to the marketing and use of new antipsychotics or antidepressants, many patients' conditions have been well controlled, which not only avoids many troublesome side effects. After going through the course of disease and receiving medical treatment, what will happen to mental patients when the symptoms are controlled and the condition tends to be stable? How to make these relatively weak ethnic groups return to the basics of life smoothly, live independently, healthily and happily, and at the same time reduce the burden on families and society has become the main goal of community mental health care.

Community mental health care, Chengda Psychiatry Department continues to extend the context of mental health care with the hospital as the core, expand medical services to the community, and implement "de-institutionalized" mental health care services, expecting patients to finally return to community life. With the implementation and continuous promotion of community mental health care, the best use of mental health care resources and the vision of patients returning to the community will not only be popularized in Taiwan Province Province, but also the mental health of the public will be better maintained and guaranteed.

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