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Corporate Scholarship Presentations

C3.1 Allied Health and Pharmacy 14:30 Room 428

Maximising Patient Outcome by Extending Recovery-oriented Practice of Allied Health in Psychiatry – a Sharing
from Yale Attachment Programme
Cheng JPK HOSPITAL AUTHORITY CONVENTION 2017
Department of Clinical Psychology, Kwai Chung Hospital, Hong Kong

Recovery model is a global movement in psychiatric service. Considering mental illnesses as a form of disability, the model
shifted our attention from disruptive condition related to mental illness to re-establishing life, role and function of persons in
recovery (PIR). Recovery itself was a journey of PIR that one has to go through instead of an endpoint in mental illnesses. It
stresses on the involvement of the PIR, significant others and their community in the process. A recovery-oriented practice
has been implemented for a number of years in different psychiatric services in Hong Kong. The role of allied health (AH)
profession in facilitating PIR’s recovery journey in Hong Kong has to be further explored. With the support of Institute of
Advanced Allied Health Studies, two clinical psychologists and three occupational therapists had attended a two-week
attachment programme at the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) of the Department of Psychiatry of
School of Medicine in November 2016. Core elements and role of AH professions in recovery-oriented practice were explored
through discussion sessions with academic staff and persons with live experience as peer workers and involved in meetings,
visits and activities offered to those affected by mental illness. Person-centred care planning, citizenship, trauma informed
care, financial health and supported employment were some of the new recovery initiatives successfully implemented in
different psychiatric facilities in Connecticut. Peer workers played an essential role in facilitating the implementations and
outcome of these services. The high level of involvement of peer workers, supported by a comprehensive system of training
and employment in the state, was crucial in promoting recovery in PIR. Lessons learnt in the programme and possible new
service directions in both AH professions would be discussed.

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