Services of the general psychiatry division
Services
Outpatient Service
We provide outpatient service for adults aged 16 or older at the first floor of the Psychiatric Building. First visitors are individually examined in separate clinic rooms. For each first visitor, comprehensive assessments from different aspects are provided, including psychological, biological, familial, and socio-cultural, which usually take about one hour. In addition to psychiatrist’s evaluation, multidisciplinary care is also provided from our staff, including nurses, clinical psychologists, social workers, and occupational therapists. This kind of team approach gives our patients a thorough mental and psychosocial evaluation and adequate psychosocial support. The ultimate goal of above-mentioned assessments is to form a thorough, diverse, and patient-centered treatment plan for each patient. Moreover, we open the Special Clinic of Thoughts/Perceptions Disturbances, the very first innovative clinic in Taiwan (may be in Asia). This special clinic is for the referral of patients with suspected early psychosis.
Emergency Service
Focusing on the treatment of emergent psychiatric problems, our Emergency Service is incorporated in the Emergency Department of the NTUH. Attending psychiatrists of the Division of General Psychiatry take charge of our Emergency Psychiatric Service and supervise senior residents in the training program.
Inpatient Service
We perform comprehensive psychiatric and functional evaluations for each acute psychiatric patient. Our goal is to provide patients with safe and immediate psychiatric treatment, to improve their mental condition and help them return to the community.
Day Hospital Service
We provide chronic psychiatric patients with regular daily activities, practices of basic life skills, and social and occupational training. Our goal is to help those patients return to the community and lead a stable life.
Community Psychiatry
We provide two kinds of services. For patients with psychiatric disorders, we evaluate the patients’ needs of daily life and provide family with psycho-education about appropriate interaction skills with the patients. The other service is to help patients get the jobs, including evaluation or training of occupational ability and consultation, transfer to or guidance of sheltered work, etc.
Forensic Psychiatry
We provide forensic psychiatric service for adult patients not only to help the Judiciary dealing with related legal affairs but to assure human rights of litigants.
Mental Health Promotion
In order to promote mental health and to increase stress tolerance of the general public, we provide service of mental health promotion and empower programs in the public circle. The goals are to prevent mental illness and help the general public lead a good-quality life.
