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KMID : 0897520000050020146
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2000 Volume.5 No. 2 p.146 ~ p.158
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Manpower in Community Mental Health : Leadership of Psychiatrists in Multidisciplinary Therapeutic Team
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Ahn Dong-Hyun
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Abstract
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The psychiatric care has been delivered through the combined expertise of multidisciplinary teams that include, among others, nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. The multidisciplinary approach is vital to the provision of comprehensive care within community mental health setting. Traditionally, mental health hospital have been headed by psychiatrists. This will be no longer true for community mental health programs since the revision of Mental Health Law on Jan 12, 2000. As soon, the result of the trend will be that the comprehensive, biopsychosocial expertise brought by psychiatrists has been absent in many cases. This has negative consequences as serious mental illness are in the medical domain. The community mental health systems are responsible for the care and treatment of large numbers of persons with the most serious mental illnesses, eg. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, recurrent major depression. The qualified care for these persons must be assured through defining appropriate leadership role for psychiatrist at all levels of the mental health care system.
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KEYWORD
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Community mental health, Multidisciplinary team, Psychiatrist, Medical director, Leadership
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