Hospitals
Craegmoor’s independent hospitals offer treatment and support for adults with a range of learning disabilities, autism, complex needs and mental illnesses including people with a forensic history.
Craegmoor’s Independent Hospitals facilities include:
- Medium Secure – For individuals with mental illnesses
- Enhanced Low Secure – For men with Asperger’s Syndrome and women with borderline personality disorder
- Low Secure – For individuals with learning disabilities
- Locked – For individuals with learning disabilities
- Community Group Homes
- Recovery, Hospitals and Centres – For individuals with complex mental illnesses
- Nursing Care – For adults with Huntington’s Disease and other similar degenerative diseases
- Nursing Care – For adults with complex mental illnesses
At Craegmoor we are totally focused on providing innovative, therapeutic treatment and support that puts the individual first. This enables the people who use our Independent Hospitals to progress through a care pathway that fulfils their maximum potential. Wherever possible, we encourage and support people to live as independently as possible either in a hospital or in community based services.
Person centred approach
Absolutely everything we do at Craegmoor is guided by the people who use our services, their personal needs and the choices they wish to make. A personalised approach is central to the way we operate.
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
As well as fully qualified nursing staff, the team is made up of consultant psychiatrists, forensic and clinical psychologists and psychology assistants, occupational therapists, education and vocational services co-ordinators, physiotherapists, social workers and art and music therapists.
Multi-Disciplinary reviews take place regularly with the people involved fully taking part in all aspects of their own treatment and support.
Assessment and treatment plans
The Psychology team take a lead role in our pre-admission assessments. The team’s responsibility is to ensure that a detailed risk assessment is documented and shared with the Multi-Disciplinary Team. The Psychology team also works closely with every person involved to develop relapse indicators and management plans as well as providing therapies. This can encompass the supervision of anger and stress management, depression, auditory hallucinations, delusion, addiction and other cognitive difficulties that individuals may experience.
Robust holistic treatment programmes
Our psychology department pioneers evidence-based treatment programmes for people with learning disabilities. These include Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Sex Offender and Fire Setting Intervention Programmes, Anger Management and Social Skills training.
The DBT programme supports individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder. Individuals can improve their quality of life by being encouraged to learn and apply the coping skills that are taught through a three stage programme:
Stage One. This part of the programme increases an individual’s skill use by helping to manage target behaviours and therapy interfering behaviours.
Stage Two. Once an individual has met the requirements to progress from Stage One (coping skills are learned and evidenced), the programme moves on to deal with post traumatic related problems.
Stage Three. Here the focus is on the individual’s self esteem and his or her treatment goals.