Gender: Female
Age: 18+
Beds: 15
The care pathway is able to support and treat women presenting with complex needs, including a personality disorder. The enabling environment and staffing skills provide a robust and safe setting. The care pathway uses an integrated programme structure to enable focus on positive pre-engagement work through a wide range of approaches, including trauma informed care. The primary aim of the service is to prepare service users with the required skills to move to a Tier 4 pathway or step-down service, or discharge to community service or independent living as appropriate.
Eleanor’s Journey
Read about how the team at Upping Ward helped Eleanor to regulate her emotions, improve her physical health and look forward to the future.
Our Psychologically Informed care model:
Our psychological model is underpinned by a systemic framework, applying an eclectic approach that combines interventions from different therapeutic models and delivers them in an integrated way. This model is driven by a comprehensive complex formulation and an individually tailored psychological treatment plan, The model is underpinned by the relevant theoretical approach to meet the variable and complex needs of the service user. We also offer low intensity open groups to aid motivation and
integration, alongside formal closed treatment groups.
The care model embraces a wide range of interventions including CBT and mindfulness. Alongside CBT as our main approach we also offer psychodynamic approach as well as DBT informed approach (N.B. this is not the full DBT programme. These are delivered within our 5 stage model of care alongside alternative therapies such as art and music therapy; offered to respond to affective, behavioural, cognitive, physiological and spiritual needs. The programme is flexible, facilitating progression through
engagement and assessment, to transition and discharge.
Therapeutic approaches and assessments:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Occupational therapy assessment and interventions
- Psychological formulations
- Music therapy
- Art therapy
- Mindfulness
- Sensory assessments
- Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
- Selected Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) informed approach
Our service user profile:
- Women, aged 18+
- Detained under the Mental Health Act or informal
- Primary diagnosis of Personality Disorder
- Likely to be diagnostically complex
- May admit people initially requiring additional care, each case is assessed on an individual basis
- May be disengaged from treatment
