The family is the most important system in a person's life. On the one hand, the interpersonal relationships of family members are crucial for their healthy growth and development on a personal level. On the other hand, the family, as a common system for organising and running the lives of parents and children, is the mechanism within society which is the first to deal with external psychosocial pressures (pandemic, unemployment, etc.) and the psychological difficulties of its members.
The dialectics of mental health in the family includes a range of issues such as the mental health of parents and children, the couple's relationship, the relationship between parents and children, the management of mental illness of a family member, the management of traumatic experiences in the family, etc.
The Day Centre for Family Support is addressed to children, adolescents and adults with mental disorders and psychosocial problems. In particular, direct beneficiaries of the Day Centre can be:
- children up to 12 years of age who have psychological and psychosocial difficulties or disorders
- adolescents aged 13 to 18 who have psychological and psychosocial difficulties or disorders
- young adults aged 19 - 22 years old who are experiencing psychological and psychosocial difficulties or disorders
- parents or carers who experience psychological and psychosocial difficulties or disorders themselves or their children
Indirect beneficiaries of the Day Centre can be health and mental health professionals, teachers, schools, and other social institutions.
Our institution collaborates with the Attikon University General Hospital and in particular the Department of Psychiatry of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in order to offer scientific experience, supervision and know-how for the organization and operation of the Day Centre services.
Reception services
- Secretarial Support & Information Provision
- Reception and transmission of requests
- Monitoring & managing meetings
Psychological services
- Needs assessment, conducting psychometric tests
- Development and implementation of personalised care and support plans
- Therapeutic interventions (counselling support for the empowerment and strengthening of the mental resilience of children and adolescents, individual therapeutic intervention for children, adolescents and parents facing mental disorders
- Therapeutic groups (family and school support groups, specialised programmes such as therapeutic exercise, arts therapies)
- Systematic monitoring (follow-up)
Child psychiatric & Psychiatric services
- Diagnostic assessment and needs assessment
- Development and implementation of personalised care and support plans
- Therapeutic intervention
- Systematic psychiatric medical monitoring (follow-up)
Social service
- Reception, organisation and management of requests
- Social needs assessment
- Information and support on social-welfare issues
- Operation of the referral protocol
- Organisation and operation of groups of interconnected actors
- Conducting information workshops and seminars - community psychoeducation
- Advisory support
Special Treatment Services
- Occupational therapy / Speech therapy
- Treatments through the arts
Nursing services
- First aid
- Emergency individual needs of children
- Health promotion and family and supportive counselling
Psychosocial rehabilitation activities
- Groups for the family with a variety of activities with a fixed and changing focus
- Sports activities in cooperation with local institutions
- Leisure activities
Specialised mental health services
- Therapy assisted with virtual & augmented reality tools
- Operation of specially designed Play and Relaxation areas for the family
- Digital Services - Children's Platform for information & psycho-education
Community education actions
- Networking and cooperation with services/bodies
- Conducting workshops, events, communication campaigns
- Development of methodological tools, guidelines and dissemination of good practices
- Mental health prevention & promotion groups
- Activation of voluntary actions integrated in the needs of the Day Centre
The Day Centre for Family Support is implemented within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan Greece 2.0 with funding from the European Union - NextGenerationEU.
Contact details
Address: 75-77 P. Tsaldaris, Peristeri, Greece
Phone 1: 210 57 71 975
Phone 2: 694 82 36 814
Email: family@thalpos.org.gr
Contact details
Address: 75-77 P. Tsaldaris, Peristeri, Greece
Phone 1: 210 57 71 975
Phone 2: 694 82 36 814
Email: family@thalpos.org.gr
