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KMID : 1001720200300020021
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Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
2020 Volume.30 No. 2 p.21 ~ p.52
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Study on Alternative Mental Health Programs: Centered on Non-drugs Approach to Enhance Vocational Activities of People with Mental Disabilities
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Lee Yong-Pyo
Bae Jin-Yeong
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Abstract
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This study has started from the question of whether psychiatric drugs can enhance vocational activities of people with mental disabilities. Many previous studies have reported that long-term use of psychiatric drugs has not only physical risks but also the risks of developing other mental disabilities due to brain damage, warning the long term use of drugs because it can outweigh the efficacy of the drugs. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to explore alternative mental health programs based on non-drug or minimized-drug practice and to seek ways to prevent the risks from long-term use of psychiatric drugs or daily crisis in vocational activities of people with mental disabilities. In order to achieve the research purpose, we analyzed Open Dialogue of Finland, Soteria Bern of Switzerland, and Bethel House of Japan. As a result, the commonality of the alternative programs was converged to be replacing the “prescription by an expert ? family care” support system with an alternative support system of “collective care including peers.” Based on the results, this study proposes the following seven ways to adapt alternative mental health programs to vocational rehabilitation facilities. First, the care system by a few families should be disorganized and the structure for care by multiple persons should be formed in the community. Second, the care and support system with multiple persons, including peers and neighbors, must be intentionally organized and managed in the community. Third, the composition of care and support groups should be based on the feeling of security of the person concerned. Fourth, the self-determination of psychiatric drugs should be encouraged in the new care system. Fifth, the place of collective care and support can be freely selected and the choice of the person concerned must be respected. Sixth, if the person concerned is in a crisis, the group should be collected immediately and the person concerned should be encouraged to talk about his/her difficulties in life or his/her symptoms in a crisis in the group meeting. Seventh, using an advanced mental health care directive that describes self-determination about crisis situations through the collective process can make the person concerned feel a sense of security.
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KEYWORD
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alternative mental health program, psychiatric drug, risk, non-drug practice, mental health movement
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