Deployment of Mental Health Social Workers in Community Mental Health Centers in Taiwan

Abstract

<p>社區心理衛生照護模式是以病人居家照護為主軸，提供精神病人社區生活支持體系，協助並結合家庭照顧者的精神疾患的服務模式，推動心理衛生照護的可近性、可及性與在地化，預期至2025年，全國將設置71處社區心理衛生中心，針對心理脆弱族群的早期介入，結合社區資源，因應需求，提升全國的心理健康知能、心理適應、韌力與復原能力。心理衛生社工員（師）評估個案與家庭的核心問題，協調跨專業合作，整合心理衛生、保護性、家庭、司法與法律等社會工作領域，透過個別性的服務計畫，提供連續性、支持 性精神病人照護</p> <p> </p><p>Community mental health care is a medical service model that centers on patient home care, provides psychiatric patients with a community life support system, and involves assistance from family caregivers. This in turn promotes the proximity, accessibility, and localization of mental health care. A total of 71 community mental health centers are expected to be constructed by 2025 to provide early interventions to psychologically vulnerable groups. Accordingly, community resources will be incorporated to fulfill the needs of these groups, improving the mental health literacy, psychological adaptation, and resilience of psychiatric patients across Taiwan. Mental health social workers are tasked with assessing the core problems facing case patients and their families; coordinating interdisciplinary collaborative care; integrating resources from various social work fields, including mental health, protective, family, judicial, and law fields; and providing continual and supportive psychiatric care through individualized service plans. They are also in charge of reinforcing the medical referral system and using multicultural and strength-oriented perspectives in social work to support and assist psychiatric patients in community life.</p> <p> </p>