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6th World Congress on
Mental Health, Psychiatry and Wellbeing
March 20-21, 2019 | New York, USA
Formation and work of
Mental Health Centers
within the reform of
psychiatry in the Czech
Republic
Monika Dudová
Charles University
Czech Republic
The reform of psychiatry in the
Czech Republic began in 2013,
and it divided psychiatric care into
four pillars. The first one contains
psychiatric hospitals, the second
pillar is the psychiatric wards
in general hospitals, the third
pillar is a network of outpatient
psychiatrists, and the fourth
low-threshold pillar comprehends
Mental Health Centers
(MHC). Research describes
the development and current
work of five MHCs, which were
launched in the mid-2018, two in
Prague, one in Brno, Prerov and
Havlickuv Brod. In 2019 15 new
MHC should be established. There
is a plan to create 100 MHC´s
equaly distributed throughout
the whole Czech Republic during
next few more years. The MHC
function team represents a close
collaboration of professionals:
psychiatrists, (clinical)
psychologists, psychiatric nurses,
social workers, peer consultants,
or eventually other specialized
specialists. Poster describes
multidisciplinary teams and their
current work, e.g. the assertive
case management, CARe method,
crisis intervention, psychotherapy
and other specialized and leisure
activities, which can ensure
better recovery in the natural
environment of the individual.
This research shows the main
function of MHCs – to provide
a comprehensive community-
based social and health service
to people with severe mental
illness, to prevent or reduce
hospitalizations, to recognize
development of mental disorder,
to rehabililate and help to
reintegrate into community.
Nevertheless, the MHC
funding system, the ability to
detect all potential clients, the
missing link network and other
community-based MHCs have
not yet been fully resolved.
This work was supported by the
European Regional Development
Fund-Project „Creativity and
Adaptability as Conditions of
the Success of Europe in an
Interrelated World“ (No. CZ.02.1.0
1/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000734).
Biography
Monika Dudová is a PhD. student at Charles
University in Prague, the Czech Republic. In
her postgraduate study she is focused on
mental health and work with people with
mental disorders. In her dissertation she
examines the evaluation of the psychiatric
reform from the view of the community
services users. Moreover she is a systematic
psychotherapist and in her own praxis she
is focused on adult population, mainly with
experiences with anxiety disorder and other
psychiatric difficulties. Currently, she works as
a researcher in a project KREAS – „Creativity
and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success
of Europe in an Interrelated World“ (No. CZ.02.
1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000734
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EMERGENCYMENTAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RESILIENCE 2019, VOLUME 21
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C2-030
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