| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 臨床心理學系碩士班 === 101 === The author sets the working experience at Easy Clubhouse (Cih-Fang) as the starting point of the research. Integrating the author’s background in Psychology, community approach to improve the living situation of people with mental disorder in Clubhouse, and license-focused preparation in graduate school, the practice of these experiences is served to answer the inquiries: how the author figures out Easy Clubhouse on Taipei County and then illuminates the development and condition of clinical psychology in Taiwan through reflection.
Taking practical-based action research as method, the author reflects upon her practice by thick description of real life experience rather than professional terminology, emphasizing the other beings as the subjects under the broader common context and presenting the author’s framing in action. The data is gathered from the knowing experience of the different fields, working in Easy Clubhouse and internship in psychiatry department of a hospital, for introspection of the relation between service providers and recipients.
The thesis finds that belief in the potential of people with mental disorders enhance workers’ understandings toward members and their living situations through meaningful interactions and then form an organic community by helping each other and themselves in Easy Clubhouse. Thinking in action also deconstructs the pathology-therapeutic view transplanted from America and also represents the helping value in society. In medical setting, the pursuit of efficiency and more elaborate division of profession labor tend to limit the comprehensive understanding toward psychiatry patients and obscure the basic meaning of team work. Then, the culture and social meaning of clinical psychology’s work is hard to happen in place; the relation between profession development and patients’ difficulties is ignored; education for students and training for being workers are both influenced. Overlap and ambiguity of the learning and laboring on internship along with the structural conditions also challenge how the profession self examines the growing on the helping field.
All experiences in the thesis perform the problem that how people living with mental disorder in society is recognized through different contextual interactions. Difference of knowing not only stimulates worker’s thinking and action but also improves dialectical views among these fields. The contribution is to present limitation of medical setting, compared with occurrence of Clubhouse spirit in Taiwan, and to redefine “clinical” as human-centered essential values. In conclusion, the author suggests that the helping profession should take culture-social view as the basis of understanding people living with mental disorder and then develop “handicraft knowledge” in action from the local context.
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