2021.09 62-2 Psychologists' Experiences on Home-based Mental Health Services for the Bereaved Crime Victims The mental health issues caused by violent death of family members have attracted a lot of attention, and the bereaved ones may experience both symptoms of trauma and grief, and high mental health risks, such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and complicated grief would also be derived from these incidences. In Taiwan, The Association for the Protection of Crime Victims (AVS) is the main unit that provides psychological trauma recovery services for the victims. This AVS often adopts home-based mental health service delivery mode. However, the home-based mental health service model is not common to the psychologists who have always accepted the office treatment training model. This research is to explore the psychologists' views on the home- based mental health services regarding the bereaved families of crime victims, as well as the challenges perceived during the services and coping strategies. The results indicated that these psychologists' views on home-based mental health services can be divided into four aspects: (1) The origin of home counselling and the meaning of continuous services for psychologists. The origin is to increase the volume of service delivery, and the psychologists are willing to continue to serve because of professional recognition and social responsibility; (2) Advantages of home counseling, including empathy and deep understanding, easy to build relationships naturally. It is beneficial to facilitate emotion and awareness; (3) Adjustments to home-based mental health services, including flexibility to meet client needs and background, immediate adjustment and maintain the treatment structure; (4) The effectiveness and reasons of service, which refer to good counseling effectiveness from being able to manage real life issues and the effectiveness is naturally implemented in life; the limited effectiveness of counseling is related to the lack of preparation of the client, the insufficient dominant power of the psychologist, and the interference in the house environment that affects the depth of the session. Keywords |