Treatment programmes

We are able to utilise the expertise of a wide range of professionals and therapists to provide our patients with one of the broadest treatment programmes available.

All programmes are bespoke to the individual care needs of the patient and combine intensive rehabilitation therapies which give them the best chance of acquiring the skills and structure to integrate into the community. Sample treatment programmes include: 

Sex offenders treatment

This programme runs for up to three years and is aimed at patients with a history of sex offending behaviour. It involves both individual and group work based on cognitive behaviour therapy, with emphasis on relapse preventions.

Forensic addiction treatment programme

The forensic addictions service offers a specialised programme specifically designed to address the tripartite problems of mental illness/disorder, substance misuse and offending behaviour within one dedicated setting.

Management of self harm

Our programme bases itself on a non-judgemental approach in which patients are given as much responsibility for their self harm as they can safely be given and where intense and prolonged levels of observation are seen as counter-productive.

Managed individually and in groups, the treatment focuses on helping patients recognise and then manage the thoughts and emotions which are antecedents of self harm, so that they are able to use alternative coping strategies and move onwards from self harm. 

Socialisation programmes

Leisure activities can provide a method of expression, mental stimulation and well being, either through organised sports, model making, music, films and quiz nights. These activities can promote confidence and improve physical health in a non-threatening environment.

Links with community organisations can also be an important part of the pathway to rehabilitation, which encourage commitment, involvement, management of stressful situations, development of social skills and increase of self-esteem. 

Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)

The aim of our CBT treatment is to help the patient develop an awareness of their distorted thinking that may be contributing to their psychological distress, and to identify behavioural patterns which could be reinforcing this style of negative or distorted thinking. The main treatment objective is to modify distorted thoughts at the core of the person's distress through examining and re-evaluating their patterns of thinking, and testing out alternative viewpoints and behaviours that may be more effective in aiding problem solving and implementing change.

Throughout the therapeutic process, our therapists make every effort to come to an understanding of experiences from the patient's point of view. This process validates the person's experience and communicates to them that they are being listened to. Throughout the process the patient will increase their awareness and skill in introspection, but will also develop more adaptive coping strategies.

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Occupational therapy programmes

Our occupational therapy programmes deliver a comprehensive treatment and assessment based activity programme, delivered individually or as part of a group. In addition to an activities programme, each patient will have an individual occupational therapy treatment programme that is aimed to optimise their functioning within the domains of self care, occupation and leisure, by incorporating the use of purposeful and meaningful activites.

 

Trauma recovery

Provision of a safe, accepting, structured and boundaried treatment setting is the first step towards giving traumatised patients a secure foundation for psychological therapy. Patients are encouraged in therapy, which can be on an individual or group basis, to examine the links between their traumatic experiences and the behaviours which cause distress to themselves and other responses to trauma.

Arson cessation programme

Typically a programme starts by undertaking a comprehensive assessment that examines individual risk. This includes assessing early experiences of fire, a functional analysis of each fire, as well as assessing the person's understanding of their fire setting behaviour and risk.

The broad aims of treatment are to provide information on the dangers associated with fire setting and the impact on victims (victim empathy issues), to develop an understanding of each person's history of fire setting and the function(s) of the behaviour for them, and to develop an awareness of relapse prevention skills.

Treatment can be completed on a group or individual basis; and participation in other skill building groups such as anger management, problem solving, communication and social skills training are also recommended.

Violence reduction programme

Our violence reduction therapeutic programmes are based on national guidelines such as those from the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), and offer a variety of tailored treatment modalities to help patients achieve outstanding clinical outcomes.

We care for extremely challenging patients, many of whom have failed prior placements due to inpatient violence. Our purpose is first to estimate risk and safely contain violence during the acute period before going on to reduce the frequency and intensity of the violence.

The key to our safe and successful management of violence lies in full and ongoing risk assessment and management from the moment of admission. Features of the clinical strategy include:

• Standardised risk assessments based on structured clinical judgment are prepared and updated by multidisciplinary teams.
• A staged multidisciplinary and multiprofessional approach to violence
• Assessment of outcomes using validated rating scales
• Identifying the short and longer-term antecedents of violent behaviour in both hospital and externally and targeting these in therapy
• Specifically addressing violent offending behaviours
• Consolidating gains
• An internal pathway from medium to lower securing to show that reduction in violence can be maintained in lesser security