CMZ
Professional team
Mental Health Centre
Multidisciplinary patient support
The Centre's team provides psychiatric, psychological, counselling and rehabilitation support, working with other healthcare, social care and local institutions.
Service team
Service staff
The professional team at the Mental Health Centre consists of:
- Dr. Adnan Durek, specialist in psychiatry
- Ana Pastuhović, graduate psychologist
- Josipa Lozić, graduate nurse and psychotherapist in training
- Senada Imamović, nurse
About the service
The Mental Health Centre is a primary healthcare unit providing mental health promotion, prevention, early diagnosis, treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation for people with mental health difficulties.
As part of its work, the Centre also assesses medical fitness through medical board examinations for driving licences, firearms licences, employment and routine health checks, and works with other healthcare and social care institutions in the community.
The service performs the following duties: monitoring and studying living and working environment conditions; conducting clinical examinations; assessing the results of diagnostic and functional examinations and providing opinions; conducting consultation examinations; assessing patients’ medical fitness; providing diagnosis and determining treatment; organising and participating in health education work; providing health education; and determining the need for hospital treatment and other forms of treatment.
Service organisation
The services provided by the Mental Health Centre include:
- Mental health promotion and improvement
- Prevention of mental disorders and addictions
- Psychiatric examinations and assessments
- Psychological diagnosis and testing
- Psychological counselling
- Individual and group psychotherapy
- Family therapy and work with service users’ families
- Crisis interventions
- Pharmacotherapy and treatment monitoring
- Rehabilitation for people with mental disorders
- Occupational therapy and life skills training
- Disability prevention and psychosocial rehabilitation
- Home visits and work in the local community
- Ongoing follow-up after inpatient treatment
- Cooperation with schools, the social work centre, police, courts and other community institutions
- Activities aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination against people with mental health difficulties
Additional services and medical board
Additional services and medical board examinations include:
- Examinations for issuing and renewing driving licences
- Examinations for issuing and renewing permits to possess and carry firearms
- Pre-employment examinations
- Routine health checks
The medical board meets every Tuesday from 11:00 at the Mental Health Centre / Mental Health Rehabilitation Service of Jajce Health Centre.