register, detailing the corresponding situation and recommendations to solve it. Answer: new furniture will be purchased with priority for psychologists’ practices (especially cabinets for the patients’ reports), as well as licensed psychological tests. These purchases will be made by December 1, 2018. The register of professional acts will be implemented starting November 1, 2018. Psychologists will begin to draw up individual intervention plans starting November 1, 2018. A plan was drawn up by a psychologist, allowing to extend and multiply ergotherapy activities. Restoration works started in the sports hall, which will allow the performance of physical activities therein. Once the restoration of pavilion 28 is completed, game rooms for the patients will be arranged. All these actions will help improve complementary mental health care. The special events register was implemented starting May 1, 2018, pursuant to the recommendation provided during the visit. ● no procedure on psychological assistance was drawn up; ● professional acts were recorded in a standard medical register used in the hospital (Register of examinations), not registered with the secretariat of the unit, with improper headings for the supplied psychological assistance; ● a much too low number of psychological interventions, not enough to provide for the patients’ needs of assessment, counselling and psychotherapy, and the register did not include the type of supplied psychological assistance (counselling, assessment, etc.); counselling/psychotherapy was also provided based on the psychologist’s statements, but the relevant notes referred to non-specific assessment, with repeated wording and no required recommendations; ● no recommendations for the follow-up of the psychological assessment were provided, no psychological intervention plans for the patients were established (the Psychiatry Hospital of Drăgoești, Vâlcea county). Recommendations: ● to use the Register of professional acts, issued by the College of Romanian Psychologists, to be numbered, sealed and registered at the unit’s secretariat and the psychologist should draw up psychological assistance procedures; ● to increase the efficiency of the psychological assessment process, by purchasing and using the suitable instruments (scientifically validated psychological tests, to cover psychological assessment needs); ●to increase the number of psychological counselling sessions and the psychologist should thereafter fill in the counselling 105

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