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KMID : 0897520000050020165
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Journal of Korean Association of Social Psychiatry
2000 Volume.5 No. 2 p.165 ~ p.178
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Roles and Leadership of Psychiatrist in Mental Health Field
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Hwang Tae-Yeon
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Abstract
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From the passage of Mental Health Law in 1995, many psychiatrists are performing their new role in the community mental health, which is different from the traditional role under the medical model in the hospital. Psychiatry has a comprehensive Biopsychosocial Perspective in approaching the mental illness and this view differentiates psychiatry from other mental health specialities. As a leader in the community care, psychiatrists are performing；treatment and making plan for the chronic mentally ills, supervising and educating the mental health professionals, organizing the community mental health center and program, linking the community resources for the patients, and doing fund-raising for the community programs.
Recently many mental health workers are involved in the psychiatric rehabilitation and community care and rapidly replacing psychiatrists’ supervisory positions in asylum, residential facility and even the director of co-mmunity metal health center according to Mental Health Law Amendment in 2000. So we can see any differ-ences of the roles among psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in the Law. This amendment may change the leadership in the community psychiatry from psychiatrist to mental health workers. In this crisis psychiatrists should not give up and withdraw from their position just like American psychiatrists did since 70th. Psychiatrists should accept the reality, get
rid of monopolistic attitude for their own, and cooperate with other professionals. In the residency training program, community involvement and training should emphasized for the leadership and administration. Psychiatrists should
maintain their leadership through assertive professional activities and mental health policy development for the
community mental health.
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KEYWORD
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Mental health, Psychiatrist, Roles, Leadership
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