DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Head of the Office: Takashi Amagaya  RN, MSN

     Mental Health Nursing educate basic knowledge and nursing skills education such as psychiatric treatment, psychiatric rehabilitation, and community mental health in order to provide nursing to people with mental health problems and their families.

1. Mental Health Nursing

Students will learn about nursing support to maintain and improve mental health for people at all stages of development.
In addition, students understand the concept of mental health, developmental tasks and critical situations in each phase of the life cycle, and learn the nursing support necessary for the prevention and early detection of healthy mental development and mental health problems.
Students aim to understand nursing support for maintaining and improving mental health for people at all stages of development. (Able to comprehensively understand the subject of nursing and practice nursing based on scientific knowledge and skills)

2. Psychiatric Nursing

Students learn about understanding, treatment and nursing of people with mental disease. We incorporate lectures invite people with mental illness life and experiences to help understanding of students. In addition, through exercises that reflect on one's own words and actions using process records and social skill training (SST) exercises, it is an opportunity to know the characteristics of one's cognition and communication and think about self-coincidence. Moreover, we will use cases to develop the nursing process for convalescent nursing for schizophrenic patients.

3. Practicum in Mental Health Nursing

We take charge of hospitalized patients with mental illness and practice the development of the nursing process. In addition to managing medical conditions, we focus on life disorders associated with mental illness and the problems that patients have, and help them to live in their own way.

• About recovery and strength of mentally handicapped people
• Difficulties in community life for people with mental illness and their support
• About peer activities of mentally handicapped people

     In the field of Mental Health Nursing, this is the third year since we launched the psychiatric nursing volunteer department, which consists of our students and graduates. Up to now, about 70 students have belonged, and 39 new students have joined this year as well. Aiming for a society where people with mental illness can live comfortably, we are conducting educational activities for local residents. As one of our activities, we volunteer to participate in the management of events, etc. held at social rehabilitation facilities for the mentally handicapped.

Professor Takashi Amagaya, RN, MSN
Professor Tadashi Sekine, RN, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor Yumi Kimura, RN, MSN
Assistant Professor Yoshie Takebuchi, RN, MSN

Depertment of Mental Health Nursing
Dokkyo Medical University School of Nursing
Kitakobayashi 880, Mibu, Shimotsuga, Tochigi, 321-0293 Japan