Psychological Health- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

1. Psychological Health- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

2. What is PTSD? • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • People experienced or witnessed the trauma of a major security threat to life or accident. • Great fear and other psychological and physiological reactions. • If the reaction continues over a month,it can affects the normal living, post-traumatic stress reactions will become disease.

3. PTSD-Order of severity

4. What is a traumatic event? • The events can not be expected to make experience and feel the life or physical safety of bystanders threatened event. Here are some examples: -Sexual assault (性侵犯) -Suffering from life-threatening diseases (患上威脅生命的疾病) -Violence (暴力) -Huge natural disasters, such as tornadoes, storms, earthquakes and tsunamis (巨大的自然災害，如龍捲風、暴風、地震和海嘯) -Childhood abuse or witnessing domestic violence

5. Symptoms

6. Sings In addition three types of symptoms, the patients generally have more anxiety, easy to anger and confusion, loss of interest in the activity, perceived inability to concentrate, feeling depressed and helpless. Some patients may experience headaches, stomachaches or other physical symptoms.

7. Therapeutic Equipment

9. Psychological Health care services- Public ~ Hospital Authority

10. Psychological Health care services- Private~ Precious blood hospital • Only one time for each of two doctors • Just in the morning

11. Psychological Health care services-The non-government organization • The United Christian Nethersole Community Health Service(基 督 教 聯 合 那 打 素 社 康 服 務 UCN ) • Established in 1972 • providing preventive medicine & clinical service , Chinese medicine service, mental health & social service etc.

12. The non-government organization- Mental health & social service • Providing : clinical psychology, emotional health education, health promoting school project, good neighbour network, integrated home care service, day care centre for the elderly.

13. Mental health & social service

14. Psychological Health care services- Other non-government organization ( providing mental health service ) • Hong Kong Christian Service • Hong Kong Mood Disorders Centre • Society for Community Organization • United Centre of Emotional Health & Positive Living • Baplist Oi Kwan Social Service • Caritas Family Service Unit • Christian Family Service Centre

15. Psychological Health Care Services In Hong Kong(advantages) • Health care workers discharged patients subject to treatment and rehabilitation needs, arrange them in psychiatric clinics or psychiatric day hospital for follow-up treatment, or by community psychiatric nurses to provide outbound services. • Also take into account the welfare of discharged patients, refer their cases to the resident medical social workers to follow up and refer them to apply for rehabilitation services and community support services. • The HA will arrange for community psychiatric nurses to follow up on these priority categories of high-risk patients to provide a special follow-up after discharge, including home visits in advance.

16. Psychological Health Care Services In Hong Kong (Inadequates) • Mental patients to public hospitals for outpatient waiting a long time, and treatment time is short, the problem getting worse. • Statistics show that Hong Kong is only about 300 psychiatrists, less than 2,000 psychiatric nurses and psychiatric beds in public hospitals only about 3,600. • Lack of medical resources, enough for a small number of patients to be hospitalized for observation.

17. Psychological Health Care Services In Tai Wan(advantages) • Starting as early as 75 years, already begun to promote prevention and treatment of mental illness. • Since 86 years, the comprehensive promotion of community mental health care plan. • Before 2010 Mental health care from outpatient, emergency, intensive care unit, acute wards, chronic wards, rehabilitation wards, day hospital, community rehabilitation center, home to the rehabilitation of self-contained health care system covers the complete set of.

18. Psychological Health Care Services In Tai Wan (Inadequates) • Few people are willing to become a medical graduate psychiatrists, services for psychiatric patients. • Government health administration departments responsible for the lack of mental health and mental health promotion agencies, mental health and social welfare insurance bill yet to see. • Mental health facilities is a serious shortage of manpower and budget. • Home treatment services still partial to the "hospital-based“ service type due to unequal distribution of medical resources.

19. Do & Don't ( patients )

20. Preventions

21. Our suggest- Hong Kong Mental Health Care Services • More training to doctors and nurses • Improve the mental publicity • Development of working hours • Actively develop mental health services • To have a longer treatment time, it can be in-depth understanding of the psychological status of patients • The outpatient waiting time is too long The government should have had more social workers counseling patients temporarily

22. Our Feeling • Crosses modules (psychological health and health services) • Can train our thinking and hence apply our knowledge • Understood the health care services more deeply because the applied learning course

23. The End Thank You ☺