HEALTH MENT HEALTH PROBLEMS HEAVING PATIENTS WITH SOCIAL PURPOSE OUR CENTER TUZLA STATE HOSPITAL serves within the body
What is Community Mental Health Center?
Providing psychosocial support to people with severe mental
disorders (schizophrenia and similar psychotic disorders) within the framework
of a community-based mental health model, providing follow-up and treatment of
patients, providing home-based follow-up, treatment and patient-family
education, and providing accessible and free service is a center.
What are the aims of the Community Mental Health Center?
• To provide biological and psychosocial interventions to
maintain the well-being of individuals with severe mental health problems,
• Providing support and psycho training to relatives of
patients with severe mental health problems,
• Maintaining the social function and increasing the time
spent by the individual in the community life,
• Coordination with other institutions and community service
organizations in order to maximize the support for individuals and their
families (Municipality, Provincial Directorate of Family Social Policies,
İŞKUR, Foundations, Civil Society Organizations…)
What are the services provided at Community Mental Health
Center?
1. Drug Treatment
2. Physical Health Service
3. Balanced and Healthy Nutrition Service with Dietitian
4. Individual Counseling and Psychotherapy
5. Family Support
6. Psycho-social interventions
a) Psycho training
b) Occupational
activities and training needs (courses varying from time to time such as
ceramics, handicrafts, music, theater, folk dances)
The products made by our patients in the occupational
therapy courses held annually in Tuzla Community Mental Health Center are
exhibited once a year at Tuzla State Hospital.
Who Works at Community Mental Health Center?
• Psychiatrist
• Psychiatric Nurse
• Psychologist
• Social worker
• Data Entry Element
• Cleaning staff
• Security guard
Who can benefit from community mental health center services?
• People diagnosed with schizophrenia, psychotic disorder and chronic mood disorder (bipolar affective disorder),
• Patients whose hospital treatment has been completed and who are eligible to receive services from the public mental health center,
• Patients identified during home visits based on past hospital records,
• After being evaluated by the relevant psychiatrist in the trsm policlinic in the hospital, they are followed up at our center with the medical board report.
Community Mental Health Center
1. Our Community Mental Health Center is a unit aiming at regular follow-up and treatment in order to prevent long hospital stays without separating the people with severe mental illness from the social environment they live in.
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3. Provides on-site treatment for patients who have difficulty reaching the hospital by visiting home.
4. Provides consultancy services by supporting patient caregivers
5. Registered patients will be able to spend one day at the center within the framework of the program they can determine with the trsm team; you will also have access to food, coffee, tea and internet.
