Community Mental Health Teams

Community Mental Health refers to a system of care in which the main provider of specialist mental health services is within a person's community, not in a specific facility such as a hospital. We aim to treat and support people in their own homes and community as much as possible and rely on hospital care as little as possible.

This section of the site describes the different services we deliver in your home or in our community facilities. From the options below, you can read about the healthcare workers you will meet, the services we provide, and the therapies and group programmes our teams offer. You can visit our Local Teams pages to see what is offered in your area.

Services

The Community Mental Health Service run many different types of service. Assessment and treatment is provided in different ways depending on what the problem is, and how severe or complicated it might be. People often move from one part to another as their problems change.

• New Patient Clinic
• Day Hospitals
• Day Centres
• Home Care
• Out Patient Clinic
• Rehabilitation and Recovery
• Suicide Behaviour Response Programme (Ceangail)
• First Episode Psychosis Programme

Mental Health Professionals

Your Local Mental Health Team provides a variety of Community and Home Services to help you. These services are provided by a highly trained team of prefessionals, who work together to help you cope with your illness and get better. You might not meet every member of the team, but if you click on the names below, you can read more about what they do and how they might help you.

• Nurses
• Doctors
• Psychologists
• Occupational Therapists
• Speech and Language Therapists
• Social Workers
• Dieticians
• Behaviour Therapists

These professions work together in multi-disciplinary teams

Therapies

Therapies are ways involve working regularly with a therapist or key worker over a number of weeks on a particular problem. They often help you identify patterns in how you think and behave, learn new skills and strategies and discuss ideas to manage your mental health better. Just as there are many different mental health problems here are many different types or techniques of therapy.

• Anxiety Management
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
• Behavioural Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for psychosis
• Behavioural Family Therapy

Group Programmes

Group Programmes often involve regular meetings/classes/activities, held once a week for a set period, in a group setting with people in a similar situation. They deal with particular problems that a group have in common such as difficulties with anxiety, difficulties socialising or relapse prevention. These tend to be specific to your local area, see your local team for more details