Adults Service
Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
provides specialist mental health services for adults of working
age with illnesses such as severe depression, anxiety, psychosis
(including schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder) and personality
disorder. A Recovery Care Plan Approach (RCPA) has been
adopted to emphasise the involvement of people receiving services
and the promotion of independence and wellbeing.
The multi-disciplinary community service work
closely with service users, carers, the voluntary sector, and other
providers of statutory services (ie the Local Authority, Probation
Service and Primary Care teams), to develop Care Plans to meet
service users and carers individual needs.
The service targets work with service users with:
- severe and complex mental health
problems;
- a less severe degree of problem where
there are risk behaviours or complex dynamics;
- requiring specialist intervention;
- marked behavioural difficulties as a
consequence of mental health problems;
The teams offer assessment and a variety of interventions that
may include specialist community and inpatient services to
meet the needs of the individuals referred to the service.
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