Syllabus
Course content:
Changes in psychiatric care after World War II and its foundations (historical, value, medical, research); biopsychosocial model and resulting criteria for successful care, brief history of psychiatric care in Western countries and the Czech Republic
Basic concepts: community care and deinstitutionalization vs institutional care, psychiatric/psychosocial rehabilitation vs treatment.
Arguments for and against deinstitutionalization. Barriers and problems in the process of deinstitutionalisation. Public attitudes.
Multidisciplinarity, person-centred care (case management) and recovery. Goals and evaluation of the success of community care.
The current transformation of psychiatric care and the implementation of its principles in practice: equality in rights and dignity, self-determination and cooperation, safety, involvement, comprehensiveness. Psychiatric reform in the Czech Republic; Mental health centres.
Rehabilitation programs and interventions, peer programs.
Specifics of the transformation of care for the elderly.
Annotation
The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of community mental health care that will enable them to understand the current process of transformation of mental health care with an emphasis on the historical and international development of care for people with mental illness. Examples and applications will include those with serious long-term mental illness and seniors with cognitive impairment.