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Community Mental Health Team – Adult Services
Community Mental Health Teams, collocated with Social Work colleagues, providing care and treatment to adults aged 18 to 65 years who have severe and or enduring mental health problems who live in East Renfrewshire.
Teams consist of nurses psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, health care assistants, social workers and admin staff.
Treatment is agreed and planned in conjunction with service users and carers, with a recovery based approach.
Elderly Mental Health
The service is designed to specifically meet the needs of clients in the Eastwood area, requiring input from mental health services, we prioritise the needs of clients with severe and enduring mental illness and dementia, designing and implementing a framework of care in which the client and carer are central We also provide services to those with mild to moderate mental illness where appropriate.
We use a multi-disciplinary approach to support clients and their carers, liaise with other professional bodies and the voluntary sector, we aim to prevent hospital admissions through community home based care, and look to support clients through the discharge process from psychiatric hospital.
Our multi disciplinary team offers a flexible needs led service, which includes specialised therapeutic group/individual work on a sessional basis.