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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Consortium PSYCHIATRICUM</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Consortium PSYCHIATRICUM</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Consortium PSYCHIATRICUM</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2712-7672</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2713-2919</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Eco-Vector</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">111</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17816/CP111</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>SPECIAL ARTICLE</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>СПЕЦИАЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Community Mental Health Services in Greece: Development, Challenges and Future Directions</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Амбулаторная психиатрическая служба Греции: развитие, проблемы и перспективы</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3308-5429</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Anargyros</surname><given-names>Konstantinos Panagiotis</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Анаргирос</surname><given-names>Константинос Панайотис</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="GR">Greece</country></address><bio xml:lang="en"><p>MD, Dr., Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine</p></bio><email>konanarg@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7978-6496</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Lappas</surname><given-names>Andreas Spyridon</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Лаппас</surname><given-names>Андреас Спиридон</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="GR">Greece</country></address><bio xml:lang="en"><p>MD, MRCPsych, Dr., Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine</p></bio><email>andreaslappaswork@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6401-0828</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Christodoulou</surname><given-names>Nikolaos G.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Христодул</surname><given-names>Николаос Г.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="GR">Greece</country></address><bio xml:lang="en"><p>MBBS, MSc, PhD, MRCPsych, Professor, Department of PsychiatryFaculty of Medicine</p></bio><email>Nikos.Christodoulou@nottshc.nhs.uk</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">University of Thessaly</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Фессалии</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="preprint" iso-8601-date="2021-12-16" publication-format="electronic"><day>16</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-12-31" publication-format="electronic"><day>31</day><month>12</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>2</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>62</fpage><lpage>67</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-10-27"><day>27</day><month>10</month><year>2021</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2021-11-19"><day>19</day><month>11</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Anargyros K.P., Lappas A.S., Christodoulou N.G.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Анаргирос К.П., Лаппас А.С., Христодул Н.Г.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Anargyros K.P., Lappas A.S., Christodoulou N.G.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Анаргирос К.П., Лаппас А.С., Христодул Н.Г.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://consortium-psy.com/jour/article/view/111">https://consortium-psy.com/jour/article/view/111</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The current system of mental health care in Greece was created in accordance with the European Union and other international principles for mental health care provisions. Whereas Greece has been reforming its system of mental health care since at least the 1980s, the main recent Greek effort has been “Psychargos”, a program which began in 2000 and is still in effect. During the last two decades the Greek mental health system has been gradually shifting to a community-based system of care. Various services with unique, yet intertwined, responsibilities have been introduced. The Greek system of mental health care still faces challenges, and the mental health reform is ongoing. Future goals should be to improve the current framework of care and access to care by establishing community mental health services across the country that are fit for purpose, enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration and patient involvement, integrating community mental health care with physical and social care services, and ensuring that service development is driven by need. Crucially, such aims demand the adoption of a culture of clinical governance and a consistent shift from traditional therapeutic care to person-centred psychiatry and preventive psychiatry.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Существующая система психиатрической помощи в Греции была создана в соответствии с требованиями Европейского Союза и другими международными принципами оказания психиатрической помощи. Хотя реформа системы психиатрической помощи в Греции ведется, как минимум, с 1980-х годов, основной стала программа «Psychargos», которая была создана в 2000 г. и работает по сей день. В последние двадцать лет система психиатрической помощи в Греции постепенно переходит на внебольничный территориальный принцип предоставления медицинских услуг. Были созданы различные службы, выполняющие уникальные, но взаимосвязанные функции. В настоящее время в греческой системе психиатрической помощи все еще существуют проблемы, и реформа в данной сфере продолжается. Цели на будущее должны включать в себя усовершенствование существующей структуры психиатрической помощи, повышение доступности медицинских услуг путем создания целевых служб амбулаторной психиатрической помощи по всей стране, улучшение междисциплинарного сотрудничества и вовлеченности пациентов, интеграцию амбулаторной психиатрической помощи с медицинскими службами и социальной защитой, а также обеспечение развития этих служб в соответствии с возникающими потребностями. Принципиальным аспектом является то, что данные цели требуют внедрения стандартов клинической практики и последовательного перехода от традиционной терапии к личностно-ориентированной психиатрии и профилактике психических расстройств.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>mental health care</kwd><kwd>community mental health system</kwd><kwd>mental health centres</kwd><kwd>Greece</kwd><kwd>primary mental health care</kwd><kwd>preventive psychiatry</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>психиатрическая помощь</kwd><kwd>амбулаторная психиатрическая служба</kwd><kwd>центры психического здоровья</kwd><kwd>Греция</kwd><kwd>первичная психиатрическая помощь</kwd><kwd>профилактика психических расстройств</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Christodoulou G, Ploumpidis D, Christodoulou N, Anagnostopoulos D. Mental health profile of Greece. Int Psychiatry. 2010;7(3):64–67. 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