Mental Disorders Department (Psychosomatic Medicine)

I. Scope of services of the Department of Mental Disorders: 1. Mental health education for all sectors of society, psychological health assessment and monitoring of high-risk groups, and mental health promotion; 2. Standardized integrated Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment of mental and psychological disorders, rehabilitation treatment for mental disorders, and liaison consultations for physical diseases accompanied by mental and psychological problems; 3. Undergraduate teaching in traditional Chinese internal medicine, psychiatry, and medical psychology; 4. Promotion throughout Xinjiang of new technologies and new projects for mental disorders, development and support of the Xinjiang Mental Disorders Specialty Alliance, application for and organization of autonomous-region-level and national continuing education programs, and organization of academic annual conferences of the Special Committees on Mental Disorders and Geriatric Mental Health. II. Diagnostic and treatment features of the Department of Mental Disorders: 1. Advocating multimodal and multidimensional consideration of diseases, stratified intervention, and “comprehensive attention and systematic treatment” under the new medical model; for mental health problems in children and adolescents, advocating against premature medicalization and promoting ecological therapy; for patients, advocating whole-course management and “full-course accompanied” nursing under a humanistic philosophy. 2. Emotion-related disorders (anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, bipolar affective disorder, etc.), sleep-related disorders, psychosomatic disorders, and mental disorders are treated primarily with traditional Chinese medicine, with an emphasis on integrated Chinese and Western medicine treatment, and the promotion of comprehensive attention and systematic treatment (pharmacological treatment—Chinese medicine, Western medicine, and a combination of Chinese and Western medicines; non-pharmacological treatment—psychotherapy, physical therapy, traditional Chinese medicine特色 treatments, and ecological therapy). III. Professional team structure: The department includes a team of physicians, a team of nurses, a team of physical therapists, a team of psychotherapists, and a mental health education team, totaling 38 people. There are 2 chief physicians, 4 deputy chief physicians, 9 attending physicians, 3 resident physicians, 1 deputy chief nurse, 6 charge nurses, 4 nurses, 4 nursing assistants, 2 intermediate-level therapists, 4 junior-level therapists, and 7 Level II psychological counselors. Educational qualifications include 3 doctoral degree holders, 2 doctoral candidates, 14 master's degree holders, 13 bachelor's degree holders, and 6 with junior college education or below.