The Chang Gung Medical Center Department of Psychiatry was founded in 1978 by Dr. Simon Lee，  who had worked as a staff psychiatrist in United States for 5 years.  After  30 years， it has become one of the best academic psychiatric departments in 
TAIWAN.

Currently， the Department has three major components: 

1. Section of General Psychiatry，

2. Section of Rehabilitation and Community Psychiatry， and 

3. Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 

There are also two centers in the Department:

1. Center for Suicide Prevention， and

2. Psychotherapy and Counseling Center
 
 

It is an interdisciplinary behavioral sciences department， which serves as a teaching， research and medical service center of mental health. 

We have outstanding staffs whose interests and expertise range from biological to sociocultural psychiatry.  Our primary missions include clinical care， teaching and research. 
 
 
 

Clinical Services
 

The clinical programs serve a large and diverse population. We are also concerned with family， and other social facts affecting mental health， and with the moral issues that arise in the practice of modern medicine. 

The Department has three outpatient centers (at Taipei branch， Linko， and Taoyuam branch)， an acute inpatient unit with 30 beds， a day care center for adult psychotic patients and another day care center for children with autism. 

In the Taoyuan branch， we also have a long stay ward with 100 beds.
 

Each month， we provide over 9，000 outpatient visits， 100 emergency room consultations， and 200 consultations for medical / surgical inpatients of the hospital.

Major clinical programs address a broad range of psychiatric illnesses， including: anxiety disorders ， depressive disorders， bipolar disorders， psychosomatic disorders， schizophrenia， sleep disorders， autism， attention deficit disorder， Alzheimer's disease and other geriatric or child psychiatric disorders. 

Our multidisciplinary team responds to each patient with a commitment to individualized treatment that may include pharmacotherapy， individual psychotherapy， couple therapy， group therapy， occupational therapy， and other biological treatments (e.g.， electro-convulsive therapy， transcranial magnetic stimulation， deep brain stimulation).
 
 

Education and Training

As a major teaching facility of Chang Gung University School of Medicine， we maintain a variety of research programs in behavioral sciences and psychiatry.  Our training program is one of the best thought out and innovative in the country. 

The Department is also involved in teaching programs in clinical psychology， occupational therapy， social work， medical ethics and other disciplines. 

The Department has three accredited training programs: general psychiatry residency， child psychiatry fellowship and geriatric psychiatry fellowship (part of gerontology fellowship training program of National Health Research Institute). 

In addition， the Department provides several research fellowship programs.  Among them， sleep medicine fellowship and consultation psychiatry fellowship are the leading programs in Taiwan，  and the women's mental health program has its international reputation. 
 

The Psychology Division has a master and doctorial internship program. Social work and Occupational Therapy internships receive undergraduate， and master students . We have always had a strong interest in education， and will continue to transmit the essentials of its discipline to medical students， residents and other mental health professionals.
 

Researches

The principal research groups in the Department are concerned with depressive disorders， headache， attention deficit disorder， old age psychiatry， women's mental health， men's mental health， sleep medicine， neuropsychiatry (brain stimulation and neuro imaging). 

Investigators in the Department are actively involved in both clinical and basic research studies in all these areas of investigation.  We also have several excellent research teams continued to involve in industry-sponsored global trials.

Our staffs pubished over 20 referred articles in scientific journals (SCI journals) every year， for example: Biological Psychiatry， Cepjalagia， Schizophrenia Research， Psychiatry Research， Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica， Sleep， Journal of Psychosomatic Research， General Hospital Psychiatry， Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences， … etc.   Three of our colleagues are regular reviewer for several SCI journals.
 

Prospects

The CGMH Psychiatry has a major commitment to clinical services， research and education.  The tradition at this Department is that of academic excellence.  We provide most-up-to-date treatments for mental disorders， and always maintain a humanistic orientation toward patient care.  The goal of the education programs is to develop highly competent mental health workers and leaders. 

Thanks to our members， we have achieved a national reputation. It is expected that the Department will continue to grow in the years to come.
 
 

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