Psychology Services

At the John Munroe Hospital Group we employ a registered Clinical Psychologist (PsychD), a registered Counseling Psychologist (HPC), and a registered Art Psychotherapist (BAAT/HPC) who can offer the following therapies for our service user group:

Formulation-based approach to patient assessment and care - which derives from a broad and integrative range of psychological models, including cognitive behavioural, psychosocial, systemic, psychodynamic, developmental, narrative and cognitive analytic

Conducting individual psychological assessments, which include the use of psychometric tests such as the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Personality Inventory, Trauma Symptom Inventory and International Personality Disorder Examination.

Conducting neuropsychological assessments where appropriate using standardised measures, such as the Wechsler Intelligence and Memory Scales, in order to provide detailed reports of an individual's cognitive functioning, which will in turn, inform care planning

Individual therapy (one to one) which would include psychological assessment, with formulation guided therapeutic interventions for working with patients with psychosis.

The development of a Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) group skills program which will focus on therapeutic work with patients who have a diagnosis of personality disorder.

Individual therapy (one to one) which would involve employing either CBT or EMDR with patients who have experienced severe trauma and have a diagnosis of PTSD.

Supervision of staff members (individual/group) employing a formulation based approach that promotes a more psychological way of working with the patients.

Provision of debriefing process for staff (individual/group) involved in work related incidents.

Art therapists typically work with very hard to reach patient groups. They have expertise in working with a range of diagnosed presentations and human difficulties drawing on NICE guidelines and current evidence based practice within the field of art psychotherapy.

These include eating disorders, dissociative identity disorder, and attachment disorder, depressive disorder, PTSD, schizophrenia, and borderline personality disorder, anxiety disorders with ranges of associated symptoms such as self harming, suicidal behaviours and addictions.