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Asked by Muhammad to Psychiatry Ward Team, Neel - Psychiatrist, Home Treatment Team, Early Intervention Team, Ed - Mental Health Nurse, Arts Therapy Team on 29 Jan 2019.
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Sheffield Psychiatry Ward Team answered on 29 Jan 2019: last edited 29 Jan 2019 2:57 pm
Emma here 🙂
Yes definitely – medication is rarely the only treatment someone can benefit from.
We try and offer psychological therapies if we can – this includes cognitive behavioural therapy, group therapy, family therapy and lots more. This can be used for many conditions including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD and more.
Often having a listening ear helps, and some signposting to other services. For example a lot of our patients on the ward live in unstable or unsuitable housing, so we have a team member that helps them improve this. Equally, we can suggest people contact alcohol or drug services if they have problems with addictions.
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Arts Therapy Team answered on 29 Jan 2019:
we vary our approach within the art therapy, but for me that is the only qualification so I stay with some form of it
we give a lot of psycho education helping people to understand their condition
I know something about mindfulness so might do brief mindfulness exercises
sometimes we work in group, not 1:1 -
Home Treatment Team answered on 30 Jan 2019:
Our hospital trust offers an array of treatments only to patients that have been referred to us and not anyone else.
Medications we use a lot for depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress, bipolar affective disorder, personality disorder, psychosis, schizophrenia, schioaffective disorder.
Therapies are also available short term and long term to help with understanding and managing emotions, anxiety, low mood, hearing voices, visual hallucinations, issues related to trauma, issues related to family dynamics, also for issues related to self harm.
ECT – Electro Convulsive Therapy. This used to be given centuries ago without anaesthetic but today it is given when all other treatments have seen not to have been effective. It is given with a general anaesthetic and i have seen may patients who were extremely depressed their mood has significantly improved.
All staff in our team provide psycho education on patients managing their recovery and develop care plans to help with this. Staff in our team have some basic skills in CBT, DBT, Mindfulness, family therapy, motivational interviewing and solution focused therapy. Our team also offers weekly psychology groups while patients are under our care to help with managing in a crisis, relapse prevention, managing emotions and using DBT TIPS skills.
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Arts Therapy Team commented on :
and we “signpost” to other therapies that might be helpful or to doing things in the community – leading a life, study, work, voluntary work are all important not just medication
Arts Therapy Team commented on :
also we might contribute to “recovery college” which is more education and taster rather then proper psychological therapy – it might be making people aware of the role of arts in their life and we know engagement in the arts is good for health