The Mobile Mental Health Unit of Chios
The Mobile Mental Health Unit started working in 2007 and is part of the program “Psychargos”, which aims at the Psychiatric Reform in Greece.
Information
To whom it is addressed
It is addressed to: The Mobile Mental Health Unit is addressed to:
- children, teenagers and adults who have mental disorders or/and psycho-social problems.
- the families of the people.
- groups of people running a high risk of developing a mental illness.
- healthy people by practicing prevention and awareness programs.
Based on the principles of Community Psychiatry and on the spirit of humanism it aims at:
- promoting the mental health of the residents of the community where it takes action in every rising social condition.
- Dealing with mental illness within the community itself, where each person lives, using the potentials derived from the people who are part of this community.
Services
The services of the Mobile Mental Health Unit are addressed to the native people of the islands of Chios, Psara and Inusses and to the refugees and migrants who are hosted on them. They include Psychiatric and Children-Psychiatric evaluation and therapeutic recommendation, observation of pharmaceutical treatment, supportive observation, psychological support and development of Social Skills.
The Mobile Mental Health Unit implements the following:
- taking measures, such as interventions in multi problem families, in order to prevent the expression of psychic problems.
- organizing educational and awareness programs for the public on mental health problems in order to eliminate the stigma.
- prompt diagnosis and treatment aiming at reducing the duration, the gravity and effects of psychic problems.
- long lasting care, psycho-social rehabilitation and reintegration in the society, aiming at reducing the feeling of helplessness and inferiority, caused by a serious mental illness.
- Nursing-house treatment in cases which is necessary.
Multidisciplinary Group
The operation of the Mobile Mental Health Unit is supervised by the Ministry of Health and has a license to operate (number of license Y5β/Γ.Π.82961/10.11.2019), provided by the Ministry of Health.
The multidisciplinary group of the Mobile Mental Health Unit (Psychiatrist, Children Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Social Worker, and Nurse, sends regular units every 15 days or once a month, which are suitably designed in order to cover the needs of the district of Chios, including the islands of Psara and Inusses.
All the therapists of the Mobile Mental Health Unit meet the requirements defined by the institutional framework of the country to practice their profession and have all the necessary certified knowledge and expertise to provide their services. The Mobile Mental Health Unit operates in a way which protects privacy and ensures medical confidentiality.
ADDRESS
Egkremou str. 30, 82131 Chios
PHONE
Τ: 22710 20000 (int. 2)
6981531969
kmpsy@kpechios.org
