Center for Mental Hygiene, Taitung County

The Center, under the jurisdiction of Public Health Bureau, Taitung County Government, is instituted to provide services to all the residents in Taitung County. Through psychological counseling, general knowledge of psychological health among people can be improved, and psychological problems can be resolved aiming at mental health for all people.

Division of Medical Affairs, Public Health Bureau
Tel: 089-340-800 (A direct line will be in service after the completion of Service Center)
Fax: 089-340-082

 Publicity on mental health

Focused on subjects of stress adjustment, communication among family members, emotion management, psychiatric diseases, depression, suicide prevention, through lectures and outdoor events co-hosted by government institutions and communities, abilities to cope with stress and prevention of psychological problems among all people will be improved.

 Psychological counselingĦBTelephone counseling

Counselors of the Center will provide psychological counseling and preliminary evaluation of mental conditions of suspected mental diseases to ordinary people in communities, special aborigine groups, and cases (students with neurosis, behavior deviation, and emotion distress) referred from other organizations either face-to-face or through telephone calls. Appropriate settlement or referral will also be arranged aiming for the establishment of a regular cooperation model between schools and social welfare through which better services and referral can be achieved.

 Training programs of professional knowledge

To provide professionals with training programs in pursuit of further knowledge as well as workshops to release stress for the purpose of promoting service quality.

 Team of voluntary workers

Voluntary or interested patients are welcome to attend voluntary worker team or job training programs in order to learn professional skills aiming at returning both to the communities and work posts.

 Prevention of suicide

Through lectures, workshops, photo exhibitions, or outdoor events co-held by schools, institutions, and communities, and with explanation from well-known figures, psychiatrists, psychologists, and nurses participated in the activities, myths can be eradicated and our observation and perspicacity to people around us can also be nurtured, so that dangerous factors of suicide can be reduced or detected in time.