How to get mental health support
- Any member of staff working within HMP Haverigg can refer you to the mental health team.
- You can also refer yourself to the mental health team using the prison application system.
- Other people and organisations can also refer you to the mental health team such as probation, solicitors, the police and your family members. In these circumstances we will always ensure your consent has been sought.
What will happen when a referral is made?
When the mental health team receives a referral for you, a comprehensive screening of your medical notes is carried out and a pathway will be identified within four working days. Once completed, this assessment is discussed within the multi-disciplinary team.
If you are to be placed under the care of the mental health team:
- You will be allocated a key worker and the right treatment for your needs will begin.
- Treatment and support can vary depending on your needs – see below for examples of treatment and support the mental health team can provide
- If needed, you could also be given an appointment with our visiting forensic consultant psychiatrist.
If, after the initial assessment, it is decided that support from the mental health team is not what you need, you will be signposted to the right services for you or discharged from the team.
Treatment and therapies
The mental health team at HMP Haverigg offers a range of treatment and therapies including:
- Assessment
- Care coordination
- Guided self-help
- Counselling
- One to one sessions
- Group sessions
- Physical care pathway
- Stepped care approach
- Robust triage process
- Comprehensive mental health and risk assessment
- Nurse-consultant led service supported by psychiatric input.
The HMP Haverigg mental health team
The team includes:
Mental health nurses who:
- offer comprehensive mental health and risk assessments
- help people recover from and manage complex mental health difficulties such as psychosis, personality disorders and schizophrenia
- offer interventions on a one-to-one basis or in groups
- monitor antipsychotic medication
- administer depot injections when required
- write detailed care plans
- provide support to patients in crisis/acute episodes of illness such as an urgent response
- coordinate transfers to and from secure psychiatric hospitals.
Psychological wellbeing practitioners who:
- provide six to eight 30-minute sessions of low intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for depression and anxiety (Generalised Anxiety Disorder, panic, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, phobias, health anxiety) focusing on self-management and improved functioning provide time limited goal focused sessions
- provide support for people with secondary care needs who are stable and also presenting with a common mental health problem e.g. bipolar and panic.
Counsellors who:
- provide sessions for treatment for depression that is secondary to simple life events (e.g. adjustment, bereavement) and is not identified as suitable for CBT based interventions
- provide goal focused one-to-one sessions which can include talking about past or present issues.
- A nurse consultant who
A nurse consultant who:
- provides specialist nursing advice, diagnosis and medication reviews
- prescribes medication
- mentors, support and develops new and existing staff members.
A consultant psychiatrist who:
- diagnoses complex psychiatric disorders
- prescribes medication
- treatment plans
- supports /supervises nurse consultant.
Patient feedback
We hold regular (monthly where possible) patient groups to help patients share feedback, ideas and innovation.
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