Center for Mental Health Services
About the Center
The center has two departments, Department of Clinical Psychology and Department of Community Mental Health. It has developed a professional system for training, supervision, and skill enhancement. The Community Mental Health Department has a dedicated team focusing on undertaking community mental health service programs.
With the strongest mental health expert team in the Wenzhou area, the center is made up of psychiatrists, psychotherapists and counsellors. The vision of center is to raise up a talents echelon for community mental health services, including full-time and part-time members, volunteers and social workers; to formulate a professional team training plan, and to strengthen the training for working teams in mental health prevention and psychological crisis intervention. The center is also committed to the continuing development of the team’s technical competence and professionalism, thus providing technical support and ensuring the supply of talents. The goal is to provide a trinity (education, counseling and intervention) of community mental health services.
In Wenzhou, the Community Mental Service Department has entered into partnerships with multiple districts, including Ouhai, Lucheng, Longwan and has been expanding to other districts, cities and provinces.
Counseling Services
By adopting the “bio-psycho-social” medical model, the center serves populations with various mental illness and mental health issues. It offers four special outpatients services, including psychological development counseling for children and adolescents, marriage and family counseling, occupational stress counseling and mental health evaluation. Currently, it has formed a distinctive mental health services system focusing on psychological counseling and psychotherapy.