Wuhan Mental Health Center at the World Health Expo

Source: People’s Daily Online-Hubei Channel

From August 5th to 7th, the 2022 World Health Expo will be held. Wuhan Mental Health Center (Wuhan Mental Hospital) will bring a new attitude and It is the fourth time for Fengfeng to appear at the Health Expo, showing the various achievements of the hospital in recent years.

At the exhibition site, Wuhan Mental Health Center gave full play to its professional advantages in psychiatry and dispatched a team of clinical experts and consultants to deal with outstanding social problems such as anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, Internet addiction, and mental health of children and adolescents. Questions were answered on the spot, and comprehensive intervention methods such as psychological counseling, traditional Chinese medicine conditioning, and physical therapy were shown. The hospital has set up sand table games, psychological evaluation platform (scanning detection), virtual reality psychological rehabilitation training system VRPR, transcranial magnetic stimulator, cognitive rehabilitation training and brain stimulation treatment system (RtDCS), multi-functional sleep therapy in the experience area. System, etc. for the audience to experience on-site.

It is reported that at present, the city has basically built a three-level mental disorder prevention and treatment network with the Wuhan Mental Health Center-District Center for Disease Control and Prevention (mental health center)-community health service center (township health center) as the backbone. system. The city has established municipal-level mental health centers mainly in Wuhan, district-level mental health centers in Jiangxia, Xinzhou, Huangpi, and Caidian districts, and street (township) levels with “Sunshine Stations”, Sunshine Homes and Nursing Centers. It is a five-level rehabilitation service network in which the community (village) is dominated by community (village) cadres and community prevention doctors, and the family is dominated by guardians to carry out rehabilitation activities. The Wuhan Mental Health Center also established the Wuhan Psychological Service Guidance Center, which pioneered the “three specialties” (specialized classes, specialists, and specialists) mental health service system. Civil affairs, trade unions, youth league committees, women’s federations and other departments; vertically, establish a three-level mental health service work system at the city, district, street (township) levels. As an advanced experience, the “three specialties” mental health service system has been jointly issued by the National Health and Health Commission, the Central Political and Legal Committee and other departments to promote it to other regions. At the same time, the Wuhan Mental Health Center took the lead in carrying out a series of “five-entry” activities for social psychological services into schools, families, enterprises, communities, and institutions to improve the public’s mental health literacy. (Deng Shengqiang, Chen Shi)