| Abstract: | The research selected K hospital in Kunming as the case, and applied action research methods to explore the ways and methods of how social workers helping patients construct a positive self-awareness. The result shows that under the guidance of the strength theory, comprehensive service to the hospitalized psychiatric patients and their families could help patients recognize their own physical self objectively and reduce their fears and anxiety. At the same time, the life-course review and the Iceberg Theory are likely to help patients to accept themselves, find their own inner needs and strengths, and build a positive psychological self. By providing external support and promoting the patients to participate in community life actively we could help them to build a positive social self. The paper also presented several principles necessary for the construction of positive self-awareness of the psychiatric patients in the local context. |
