Mental Health/Adult Psychiatry

The move to community support services for people with mental health problems is changing the face of our service provision in the UK. There has been an increasing interest in self and citizen advocacy in this area. Our behaviour management philosophy is really quite simple. We adopt an approach which involves asking service users how they wish their behaviour to be managed. Many people with chronic mental illnesses may experience a repeated number of episodes in their lives that are both distressing and frightening. We believe that the more control and choice that can be given to individuals in these situations the better the prognosis from a behaviour management perspective.