Co-creation support of Polymorphic Communication in the field of mental health: Toward constructing a newly "open" relationship among all concerned

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We developed the concept of Polymorphic Communication Intervention (PCI) in order to construct a newly "open" relationship between the Communication Challenged (CC), with higher brain dysfunction or psychiatric disorder, and all the other participants in the field of mental health, including psychiatrists, nurses, occupational therapists, and CC's families, which enables them to share the communicative disabilities of CC as a collective matter. PCI consists of the following strategies: (a) establishing communicative polyphony, (b) multiplying social roles. For the purpose of composing the communicative polyphony, we have designed each setting of liaison conference in a rehabilitation hospital and of case discussion among welfare facilities to effectively share different perspectives of medical or welfare experts. We also have multiplied social roles in CC themselves through the Kimono therapy and mock job interviews, designed to give chances for them to play different roles.