Description

Occupational Therapy (OT) is one of the mental health services. The service phase includes acute/chronic hospitalization, daycare centers (adolescents, adults, and the elderly), community mental rehabilitation institutions, psychiatric nursing home, and outpatient assessment/treatments. OT provides holistic and continuous mental rehabilitation services at each stage of mental health care. During the acute hospitalization and based on the Model of Human Occupation (MOHO) model, the occupational therapist provides daily activities to assist acute patients with mental illness to develop occupation adaptation to enable and prepare for discharge.

However, the lack of a client-centered OT service model limits the interpretation of the treatment effect and the process of change. This will seriously affect the integrity and continuity of OT services and will limit the development of OT professions. Thus, the purpose of the study is to develop and validate Client-centered Occupational Therapy Service at Taipei City Psychiatric Center (OT@tcpc) service model to assist clinicians to provide and integrate comprehensive OT services.

This project consists of 2 stages. First, based on the MOHO model we use 5 stages with 6 weeks program to develop the OT@tcpc service model. Second, validate the to indicate the occupation identity and competence to validate the OT@tcpc service model. We will recruit 70 inpatients with schizophrenia and divided into intervention group, based on MOHO theory, and control group.