Developing Direction of Community Mental Health Service through Historical Review of Change of Mental Illness Recognition

As the Mental Health Welfare Act of 2017 is enacted, in order to grasp the concept of new mental health, the first priority is to understand the awareness of the community members who are the target of the service. The purpose of this study is to examine the changes in the perception of foreign mental illnesses through literature review, and developed a community mental health services project in comparison with Korea. There is a need for an active effort to look at patients discouraging prejudice on psychiatric patients. A place to learn social skills and live together, or a community health center should be used actively. We strongly urge that the construction of infrastructures such as human, material, social and economic support is needed and that a great deal of social attention and support is needed.