Stockton Hall is a highly specialised hospital where patients requiring a medium secure care setting can maximise value from therapeutic interventions. Our services have produced excellent recovery results for patients and they are able to progress to low secure or locked rehabilitation if possible.

The hospital is split into seven main wards:

• Medium secure service for adult males with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs)
• Medium secure service for adult males with developmental disorders
• Female ward for mental health and personality disorders
• Male ward for personality disorders
• Elderly male ward for those with a settled-in presentation, in need of rehabilitation for mental illness and/or personality disorders
• 2 male wards with a mental health focus

Our approach

Stockton Hall runs a therapeutic programme, to help patients to develop coping strategies, increase skills and resilience and enable patients to access the community to maximise their recovery potential.

Programmes that support patients with mental health and/or personality disorders are focused towards those who:

• Require self-harm reduction
• Need support with violent behaviour
• Present with offence-specific behaviours

Therapeutic sessions include:

• Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT)
• Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)
• Offence-specific cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Substance misuse awareness and treatment programme
• Mental health promotion programme
• Managing anger programme
• Mindfulness

We also provide real work opportunities to help patients to develop pre-employment process skills including:

• CV workshops
• Application support
• Interviews with formalised feedback
• Training relevant to the role such as health and safety or manual handling

Real work opportunities include, for example, café manager, shop manager, maintenance worker, gym cleaner and stock ordering.

Stockton Hall’s Recovery College

Stockton Hall’s Recovery College is constantly developing and over the last two years, has had more than 350 course places signed up for and over 250 people enrolled. The planning and development of the college is taken care of by the recovery lead, patients and staff. Collaboratively, we developed a logo and tagline and decided on the whereabouts of the college and the decoration. We were very well supported by other disciplines, helping us to make sure that we had everything we needed.

Every month of the staff induction and staff update training, our recovery lead and a patient deliver a presentation to teach new staff about the Recovery College, its aims and its successes so far.

Overall, the Recovery College aims to provide further opportunities for patients to improve their wellbeing through education and skills development workshops.

You can explore this section for more information on our Recovery College.