Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy aims to enable people reach their maximum level of functioning and independence in all aspects of daily life, including personal independence, employment, social, recreational pursuits and interpersonal relationships.
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The occupational therapy department provides activities that encourage people to engage in and cope with daily life, these may include; time management skills, budgeting, independent living skills, community skills, vocational workshops, anger management, promoting self esteem and substance misuse education. The primary occupational therapy model used at Bierley is the Model of Human Occupation, which focuses on volition, habituation, performance and environment. Additional evidence based assessments and outcome measures are available and taylored according to need.
Each service user undertakes an individualised theraputic time table made up of specific groups and 1:1 sessions with their occupational therapist.
The Technical Instructor provides a comprehensive physical activities programme, which includes both in-house gym access and external community sports. The technical instructer is skilled in devising personal timetables to address service user’s fitness aims. A range of theory and practical healthy eating workshops are provided in conjunction with our dietian. A specialist smoking censation services is available for all service users.
Art Psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy, which enables the individual to get in touch with their conscious and unconscious ‘self.’ Art materials are utilised as the primary mode of expression and communication. The overall aim is to enable a service user to effect change and growth on a personal level in a safe and facilitating environment. Art psychotherapy can be particularly helpful as a means to develop conceptual thinking and reinforce service user feeling and thinking skills. Frequent treatment reviews are included in the art psychotherapy programme, which utilise the permanence of artworks to reflect upon and reinforce change.
The art psychotherapist provides both group and 1:1 therapeutic interventions, which may include; attachment focussed work, psycho-education, trauma focussed art psychotherapy, developing concentration and cognitive abilities and reducing self-harming behaviours. The art psychotherapy programme incorporates aspects of treatment models, such as CBT. This is a particularly helpful intervention for service users affected by Borderline Personality Disorder.
Music Psychotherapy is an interactive, clinical intervention, which employs music to help people cope more effectively with their difficulties. Music is a powerful emotional medium, which can provide a direct form of communication without the need for words. It may evoke strong emotions in people and can help individuals reconnect with emotions that have become split off.
The focus of music therapy is therapeutic, not musical. The aim of music therapy is not to teach the service user musical skills or how to play an instrument, although these may well provide a way of engaging them in the therapy. Generalised therapeutic goals are set at the referral stage, which are designed to be flexible, so that, as the therapy progresses, they can become tailored to the service user’s needs. Music therapy is carried out in a safe, consistent and facilitating environment.
The main aims of music therapy are:
- To help develop communication, interaction and self expression
- To raise confidence and self-esteem
- To develop an awareness of self and others
- To provide emotional support
Both group and 1:1 music therapy are offered at this hospital.
All the members of the therapy team are represented and provide reports for CPA meetings and Managers Review of Detention/Tribunal Hearings.
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