Services

We are a national service specialising in the assessment and treatment of severe emotion dysregulation and related problems including self-harm and suicidal behaviours/ideation.

Our primary intervention is a comprehensive Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) programme, which is based on the evidence-based model as adapted for working with young people and their families and carers.

Address: Michael Rutter Centre
Maudsley Hospital
De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AZ

Category: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (National and Specialist)

The Enhanced Treatment Service (ETS) is for young people aged 12-18 who are presenting with a serious mental illness which has resulted in a hospital stay. We offer an alternative pathway for young people who have been admitted for in-patient treatment.

Our service aims to reduce overall length of inpatient stay and improve the quality of care by offering intensive home treatment, hospital day care and case management to the young people who reside in Southwark, Lambeth Lewisham and Croydon as well as support cases nationally.

We offer the young people and their families a detailed assessment and evidence based individual, group and family treatment in the least restrictive environment minimising disruptions to education, family life and leisure.

We work in collaboration with a range of agencies to improve the quality of care. Our professionals lead research into new models of care both in the UK and internationally.

This is a specialist service, available to people from across the UK.

Address: Mapother House
Maudsley Hospital
De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AZ

Category: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (National and Specialist)

We specialise in assessment and treatment of children and young people up to 18 years old that present at St. Thomas' Hospital.

Our team provide emergency psychiatric services in A&E for young people up to 18. This includes assessment and management of young people who present with self-harm, and other psychiatric emergencies such as psychosis.

We also providing support for neuropsychiatric emergencies on the paediatric wards, such as young people with severe agitation or those with delirium in the context of a range of medical and neurological conditions.

We offer diagnosis, assessment and treatment of psychological and psychiatric conditions in young people with physical illnesses such as Epilepsy, Diabetes, Asthma or Crohn's Disease.

Our team provide assessment and management of complex symptoms. Often young people have severe and disabling symptoms in which a medical cause has been hard to understand. These types of conditions may be described as Ômedically-unexplained', Ôfunctional', Ôpsychogenic', or Ôpsychosomatic symptoms'.

Many patients may suffer from underlying stress, anxiety or depression. There may also be systemic, family and psycho-social factors contributing to symptoms. We offer psychological treatments for these complex symptoms so that the young person is able to return to their everyday functioning and prevent further unnecessary medical investigations and treatments.

Our team see young people with a range of symptoms including: functional movement disorder, seizures, headaches, blackouts, functional gastrointestinal symptoms and chronic pain.

Our services:

• Addressing quality-of-life issues and negative psychological impact of living with a long-term, or chronic physical illness.
• Addressing family and psycho-social factors that affect the course and management of physical illness in children, including compliance issues with medication.
• Providing psychiatric assessment for young people with neurological conditions.
• Providing robust mental health and neuropsychiatric support to the complex neurodevelopmental disability service (covering autism and other developmental conditions), Tics/ Tourette and neurodevelopmental movement disorders service (TANDeM) and national sleep medicine service at Evelina London Children's Hospital.
• Education and training to paediatric staff across Guy's and St. Thomas' (GSTT) including updates on identifying and managing mental health issues.
• Consultation to paediatric medical teams to support management of complex cases.

Address: N&S CAMHS Paediatric Liaison Service
St Thomas' Hospital
2nd floor
Gassiot House, Westminster Bridge Road,  London, SE1 7EH

Category: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (National and Specialist)

The Care Home Intervention Team (Lewisham) support people aged 65 and over, whose behaviour has become challenging in the context of a dementia or mental illness and currently attending a day care, living in a residential or nursing home setting.

Our aim is to provide a community in reach service for older adults.

We work on the understanding that community providers have a responsibility to deliver the level of care necessary to meet the needs of people who challenge services. We provide a structured and collaborative assessment and formulation of challenging behaviour as well as providing learning opportunities for care staff.

Where appropriate, we treat or make referrals and support the completion of end of life care planning (including advanced directives).

The service will reduce the prescribing of anti-psychotic medication by engaging care home staff in methods of personalised care planning including the deployment of non-pharmacological management strategies and opportunities for engagement in meaningful activities for behaviour that challenges.

We aim to complement other community health services and work collaboratively when appropriate with other agencies for the benefit of service users and their carers.

Care Home Intervention Team-(CHIT)...

Address: 91 Granville Park
Lewisham, London, SE13 7DW

Category: Mental Health of Older Adults

The Care Home Intervention Service (Croydon) support people aged 65 and over, whose behaviour has become challenging in the context of a dementia or mental illness and currently living in a residential or nursing home setting.

Our aim is to provide a community in reach programme for older adults.

We work on the understanding that community providers have a responsibility to deliver the level of care necessary to meet the needs of people who challenge services. We provide a structured and collaborative assessment and formulation of challenging behaviour as well as providing learning opportunities for care staff.

The service will reduce the prescribing of anti-psychotic medication by engaging care home staff in methods of personalised care planning including the deployment of non-pharmacological management strategies and opportunities for engagement in meaningful activities for behavioural disorder.

We aim to complement other community health services and work collaboratively when appropriate with other agencies for the benefit of service users and their carers

Croydon Care Home Intervention Team (Older Adults)...

Address: Purley Resource Centre
50 Pampisford Road
Purley, Croydon,  London, CR8 2NE

The Career Management Service supports people with mental health problems to access paid work, education, training and volunteering opportunities. Our service is for people accessing either Southwark or Croydon IAPT services or secondary care services in Southwark.

Our team of Career Coaches and Employment Specialists provide a range of tailored interventions using the Individual Career Management (ICM) model of supported employment. Support offered includes career guidance, employability training and workshops, job search support, advice around disclosure and job retention support for people who would like help to sustain employment.

Our main office base is at the Maudsley Hospital but our service is provided in different locations including the Maudsley/Bethlem Hospitals, community settings such as libraries and cafes, and local employment offices.

We accept self-referrals or referrals made on behalf of the individual, by therapists/key-workers within one of the above listed teams.

Address: Maudsley Hospital
Ground Floor
Main Entrance Building
Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AZ

The Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma (CADAT) is an outpatient psychological therapy service. CADAT provides assessment and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) locally and nationally for specific anxiety disorders and depersonalisation disorder. Our service spans across primary, secondary, tertiary and highly specialist (Tier 4) care. GPs from outside our catchment area can also make referrals to our clinic directly using Patient Choice, with the exception of Depersonalisation referrals. Depersonalisation referrals can only be made via our National service stream and we always have to seek funding from the appropriate Clinical Commissioning Group in advance of being able to add the patient’s name to our assessment waiting list.

CADAT also forms a small part of each of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham’s Talking Therapy Services and each borough’s secondary care Integrated Psychological Therapies Teams (IPTT). CADAT holds a highly specialised service (HSS) contract, which is centrally funded by NHS England to provide treatment for people with OCD and BDD for whom numerous previous treatments have been unsuccessful. This particular contract is at no additional cost to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs).

Address: 99 Denmark Hill
Maudsley Hospital
Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8AZ

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (Local)

The Centre of Interventional Paediatric Psychopharmacology and Rare Diseases (CIPPRD) provides whole-person medicine and integrated mental and physical health care for children and young people with complex, severe, and treatment-resistant co-occurring neuropsychiatric disorders and medical conditions including rare diseases.

We offer a service for children and young people aged 2-18 years with treatment resistant neuropsychiatric disorders. We also see children and young people aged 2 to 25 years old with neuropsychiatric symptoms arising as a result of rare diseases such as Rett syndrome.

We provide a service for children and young people with a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, in the context of neuroinflammatory, metabolic, genetic or neurodegenerative disorders and acquired brain injury; psychotropic-induced side-effects and neuropsychiatric aspects in children with terminal illness.

We have specific programs for those with emotional behavioural autonomic dysregulation (EBAD), Rett syndrome, Mucopolysaccharidoses, and other rare disorders.

Address: Michael Rutter Centre
Maudsley Hospital
De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AZ

Category: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (National and Specialist)

The team at the Centre for Parent and Child Support (CPCS) are committed to innovating, developing, disseminating, and evaluating training and interventions that make a difference to lives of children and families. Our team leads the national and international dissemination of the following evidence-based approaches:

• Empowering Parents Empowering Communities.
• Family Partnership Model.
• Antenatal/Postnatal Promotional Guide System
• Helping Families Programme.

The CPCS provides tailored training, development, consultation and supervision packages within a workforce development context to help organisations reach their service goals for children, young people and families.

We work closely with our colleagues at the CAMHS Research Unit to produce and disseminate research evidence aimed at improving Ôreal-world' clinical services for families affected by mental health difficulties.

Our clinical team, the Family Wellbeing team has been established to improve the outcomes and protection of families in which parents are affected by mental health difficulties.

We recommend you contact us directly to discuss any queries so that we can ensure you are provided with the most tailored and up-to-date information for your needs.

You can also send us an enquiry using our online enquiry form: http://www.cpcs.org.uk/index.php?page=enquiry-form

Address: Michael Rutter Centre
Maudsley Hospital
De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AZ

Category: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (National and Specialist)

This is a specialist service, available to people from across the UK.

GPs, consultants, health professionals, referrers, commissioners and members of the public can find comprehensive information about this national service here: http://www.national.slam.nhs.uk/services/adult-services/forensic/

Overview
The purpose of our service is to ensure that mentally disordered offenders are assessed and treated effectively, in the least restrictive environment. We aim to manage the risk, reduce further offending and support recovery throughout the person's stay.

Our service is designed to support people on a pathway to recovery through a series of carefully managed stages. Each of the ward areas are associated with a specific stage, so that those people who have responded well to treatment and are close to being discharged will be cared for in a different area than those who are acutely unwell, and at the beginning of their journey. Where our admissions and intensive care ward offers enhanced physical and procedural security, our pre-discharge unit offers a high level of independence with a lower level of security, increased access to community programmes, and community outreach services fostering the development of living skills, before moving to independent settings in the community. We also offer time limited inpatient stays and community assessments.

Our service complies with the national standards set out in the Department of Health Best Practice Guidance: Specification for Adult Medium Secure Services (July 2007).

Waddon Ward
Waddon Ward is a Forensic Intensive Psychological Treatment Service (FIPTS). We are a medium secure forensic service.
We provide assessment, treatment and care for male offenders, aged 18-65, who have personality disorders and who may be a risk to themselves and others.
This is a national pilot programme and is available for people from Prison, high secure or medium secure services whose original borough of residence is within the M25.

Our treatment programme includes group-work and one to one therapy sessions. We help people to reduce their aggressive and anti-social behaviour and to improve their relationships. We support people in their development at work, and in education, and help them to live more independently in their communities. We admit people for three to four month assessments before treatment, which typically lasts between one and two years.

For more information about SLaM's national and specialist services see: www.national.slam.nhs.uk

River House...

Address: Monks Orchard House
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham,  London, BR3 3BX

Category: Adult Mental Health Services (Local)

Chelsham House is part of Bethlem Royal Hospital. We provide inpatient assessment, treatment and care for people aged over 65 with acute mental illness or under 65 for people who have dementia.

We care for older adults who are admitted to hospital in a crisis. We support them back into the community.

Address: Chelsham House,  Bethlem Royal Hospital,  Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham,  Greater London, BR3 3BX

Category: Mental Health of Older Adults

**Due to Covid this service is now primarily delivered remotely**

The clinic is an NHS service run by Lambeth Drug and Alcohol team. The team is made up of doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, drug workers and counsellors.

All staff have experience and an interest in working with gay/msm using party drugs/chems.

The service is open to anyone living in the London Borough of Lambeth.

Who we work with:
The clinic offers treatment to all Lambeth residents aged 18yrs or over. We provide assessments to those:

• Wanting to review and explore their drug/chem use
• Wanting to stop using chems and abstain
• Wanting to cut down and gain more control around chem use and chemsex
• Wanting to gain an understanding around using safer and reducing risks.

*our needle exchange is open to everyone.

Treatment we offer:
An initial appointment is always offered to assess individual needs, this will take up to 2 hours. You will be assessed by one of the clinic nurses or social workers.

Sometimes people require a medical or psychiatric assessment on this day too.

Once assessed you will be allocated a keyworker who will work in partnership with you to facilitate treatment, through 1:1 key work sessions. Treatment may include:

• Motivational work
• Relapse Prevention
• Preparation for detoxification
• Community detox (GBL)
• Residential detox
• Group work
• Recreational activities (i.e. art group)
• Mindfulness
• Referrals for day programmes
• Referrals for residential rehabilitation

Sexual health screens:
Our nurses can offer a sexual health screen on assessment and on Fridays we offer appointments with a Sexual Health Dr (Consultant). A 60 second finger prick HIV test is available.

Needle exchange:
Operates on a drop in basis 9 - 4:30pm Monday - Friday offering needles, syringes, sterets and sharp boxes. A return service for sealed sharp boxes. Assessment of injecting sites Ð advice and information Ð harm minimisation.

How to access treatment:
We offer assessments every morning Monday Ð Friday at our Brixton site (Lorraine Hewitt House). We are able to see the first four people who present at 9am.

We can also offer a limited amount of appointments at other times which can be arranged by clicking here to email us.

Address: Lorraine Hewitt House
12-14 Brighton Terrace
Brixton, London, SW9 8DG

Category: Substance Misuse community service

We provide a specialist service for children and young people who are fostered or adopted and who are experiencing difficulties.

Adopted children and children who are in, or have been in, the care system can have a wide range of mental health problem as well as difficulties in school, at home and with peers. We offer a highly specialist assessment of a child or young person's mental health and well-being across all these aspects of functioning, and then make recommendations.

These difficulties may relate to issues that are specific to adopted children (attachment, trauma, life story, placement difficulties, degree of contact with siblings or birth family, permanency planning), as well as other aspects of mental health, including neurodevelopmental disorders, mood disorders, behavioural problems. We always consider a child or young person's particular circumstances of being adopted, fostered or under Special Guardianship Orders.

Our services:

• Individual assessment of attachments and identity in the context of the child's life story
• Specialist neuropsychological and neurodevelopmental assessments
• Personalised assessment of any other mental health issues such as trauma, mood, etc
• Individual psychometric assessment of abilities and emotional profile
• Educational attainment assessment and current school functioning by talking to teachers
• Parenting support: Personalised Individual Parent Training (PIPT)
• Individual Therapy
• Group work
• Medication
• Consultation for local Authorities, private adoption and fostering organizations, Residential Home and Therapeutic Communities.
• Training for parents and professionals

We accept referrals from:

• Social Care professionals: Social Workers, Regional Adoption Agencies, private and voluntary agencies.
• Parentsand Special Guardians via their Social Workers
• Health professionals:GPs, any CAMHS professionals, Consultant Psychiatrists, Consultant Paediatricians
• Education professionals:Educational Psychologists, Teachers, SENCOs, etc

Address: The Michael Rutter Centre
Maudsley Hospital
De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AZ

Category: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (National and Specialist)

The Autism and Related Disorders (ARD) Team is a multidisciplinary assessment and intervention service for children and young people up to the age of 18 years old, who present with a neurodevelopmental or mental health conditions. The ARD Team offers second opinions on diagnoses, consultation to families and professionals and developing and implementing care plans for intervention.

Address: Michael Rutter Centre
Maudsley Hospital
De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AZ

Category: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (National and Specialist)

Our service provides assessment and treatment for young people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD).

We provide a range of evidence-based care packages, tailored to meet the needs of the young person and their parents or carers.

Many of the young people we see are offered individual CBT, which may involve parents or carers and other family members.

We have an active research programme and are committed to increasing knowledge and understanding of the disorders we treat, and developing our treatments to help improve the outcomes for young people with BDD.

We also offer an extensive programme of training and consultancy in the assessment, treatment and management of different aspects of BDD through seminars, workshops, individual case supervision and research project supervision.

All service users referred to our service will be expected to maintain contact with their local CAMHS or GP service. These services will receive correspondence from our team throughout treatment.

Address: Michael Rutter Centre
Maudsley Hospital
De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AZ

Category: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (National and Specialist)