About Our Mental Health Service
Our secure mental health services at St Andrew’s are committed to care in the most appropriate environment for safety and rehabilitation needs to ensure that the journey through the care pathway is facilitated and supported as much as possible.
Our services provide a range of specialised treatment facilities that cater for adults and adolescents with mental health needs and who present with complex and challenging behaviour and/or a history of dangerous or offending behaviour. This includes a medium Secure Forensic Admission Unit for men and a Women’s Admission Unit for service users who require detention within secure conditions.
We also offer a Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Unit, admitting women suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder.
Our mental health services are available at Northampton, Essex and Birmingham (opening March 2009).
We support a variety of mental health conditions, including:
- Developmental deficit
- Acquired deficit
- Psychosis
- Bipolar
- Depression
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Clinical depression
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Personality Disorder