Mental Health Act Article 3
The terms used in this Act are defined as follows:1. Mental illness: Refers to an illness that manifests abnormality in thinking, emotion, perception, cognition, behavior, and other mental states, resulting in functional impairment in adapting to life and requiring medical treatment and care. However, those with antisocial personality disorder are not included.2. Specialist physician: Refers to a psychiatric specialist who has been qualified and certified by the central competent authority pursuant to the Physician Act.3. Patient: Refers to a person suffering from a mental illness.4. Severe patient: Refers to a patient who presents a mental state that is detached from reality, resulting in an inability to handle one’s own affairs, as diagnosed and confirmed by a specialist physician.5. Community Mental Health Rehabilitation: Refers to the rehabilitation and treatment of patients’ functional abilities related to work, work attitudes, psychological reconstruction, social skills, ability to manage daily life, and other functions in the community in order to assist patients in gradually adapting to social life.6. Community treatment: Refers to the treatment of patients in the community, including home-based treatment, community mental health rehabilitation, outpatient treatment, and other forms of treatment in order to prevent the deterioration of the patient’s condition.7. Community support: Refers to the use of community resources to provide patients with housing, placement, schooling, employment, maintenance care, access to medical care, social participation, independent living, and other support measures and assistance that patients need in community life.8. Psychiatric institutions: Medical institutions that have a psychiatric department.9. Mental health rehabilitation institutions: An institution that provides residential or day-based community mental health rehabilitation services.10. Mental health care institution: Refers to a medical institution, nursing home, psychotherapy clinic, psychological counseling clinic, occupational therapy clinic, mental health rehabilitation institution, and social work agency that provides mental health care services to patients.The scope of the mental illness in Subparagraph of the preceding Paragraph is as follows:1. Psychosis.2. Neurosis.3. Substance use disorder.4. Other mental illnesses recognized by the central competent authority.
中文原文 精神衛生法第3條
本法用詞，定義如下：
一、精神疾病：指思考、情緒、知覺、認知、行為及其他精神狀態表現異常，致其適應生活之功能發生障礙，需給予醫療及照顧之疾病。
但反社會人格違常者，不包括在內。
二、專科醫師：指經中央主管機關依醫師法甄審合格之精神科專科醫師。
三、病人：指罹患精神疾病之人。
四、嚴重病人：指病人呈現出與現實脫節之精神狀態，致不能處理自己事務，經專科醫師診斷認定者。
五、社區精神復健：指為協助病人逐步適應社會生活，於社區中提供病人有關工作能力、工作態度、心理重建、社交技巧、日常生活處理能力及其他功能之復健治療。
六、社區治療：指為避免病人病情惡化，於社區中採行居家治療、社區精神復健、門診治療及其他方式之治療。
七、社區支持：指運用社區資源，提供病人於社區生活中所需之居住、安置、就學、就業、就養、就醫、社會參與、自立生活及其他支持措施與協助。
八、精神醫療機構：設有精神科之醫療機構。
九、精神復健機構：提供住宿型或日間型社區精神復健服務之機構。
十、精神照護機構：指提供病人精神照護服務之醫療機構、護理機構、心理治療所、心理諮商所、職能治療所、精神復健機構及社會工作師事務所。
前項第一款精神疾病之範圍如下：
一、精神病。
二、精神官能症。
三、物質使用障礙症。
四、其他經中央主管機關認定之精神疾病。
一、精神疾病：指思考、情緒、知覺、認知、行為及其他精神狀態表現異常，致其適應生活之功能發生障礙，需給予醫療及照顧之疾病。
但反社會人格違常者，不包括在內。
二、專科醫師：指經中央主管機關依醫師法甄審合格之精神科專科醫師。
三、病人：指罹患精神疾病之人。
四、嚴重病人：指病人呈現出與現實脫節之精神狀態，致不能處理自己事務，經專科醫師診斷認定者。
五、社區精神復健：指為協助病人逐步適應社會生活，於社區中提供病人有關工作能力、工作態度、心理重建、社交技巧、日常生活處理能力及其他功能之復健治療。
六、社區治療：指為避免病人病情惡化，於社區中採行居家治療、社區精神復健、門診治療及其他方式之治療。
七、社區支持：指運用社區資源，提供病人於社區生活中所需之居住、安置、就學、就業、就養、就醫、社會參與、自立生活及其他支持措施與協助。
八、精神醫療機構：設有精神科之醫療機構。
九、精神復健機構：提供住宿型或日間型社區精神復健服務之機構。
十、精神照護機構：指提供病人精神照護服務之醫療機構、護理機構、心理治療所、心理諮商所、職能治療所、精神復健機構及社會工作師事務所。
前項第一款精神疾病之範圍如下：
一、精神病。
二、精神官能症。
三、物質使用障礙症。
四、其他經中央主管機關認定之精神疾病。