英文摘要 |
Since 1988, the community psychiatric services in Taiwan have been focusing on multi-dimensional occupational activity training for chronic psychiatric patients and the development of regional service and social resource utilization. However, the multidisciplinary psychiatric services mostly target at people with schizophrenia. The need of people with common mental disorders who receive acute care tends to be ignored in the community after discharge. In particular, programs that link between medical service and community care are lacking. Therefore, the article reviewed the literature about strategies of community reintegration and long-term care for people with mood disorders in the recovery process. Taking the example of major depressive disorder, the authors analyzed factors influencing community reintegration for patients in a psychosomatic daycare unit. Further, a case vignette was used to illustrate the five-dimensional conceptual framework of community reintegration and its contents. The ultimate goal of the article was to disseminate a newly developed model to help patients with mood disorders return to the communities with better recovery and to facilitate self-care for more independence in their lives. |