Acute Care
People often come to Castlebeck's services in a state of distress or disturbance, often after a string of failed placements.
Often they will be admitted to one of Castlebeck's acute services which offer high levels of clinical and care support as well as a 12-week period of assessment and comprehensive mental health assessment, intervention and rehabilitation for people with learning disabilities.
Castlebeck acute services are provided within non-secure settings.This is made possible through high levels of expertise, and through relational security which is achieved through strong relationships developed by our staff with those they support, rather than physical security measures.
In acute settings the emphasis is on stability and then progress. It begins with stopping the chaos and helping people stay safe.
The next step is assessment, and intervention, where people are helped to make changes and find new ways of coping with distress. Next comes planning - planning to move on to further rehabilitation or on to other supported living arrangements.
An important part of the evidential base for what we do is contained within Attachment Theory. Essentially it is about supporting people in a positive way so they, in turn, can relate more positively to themselves and then to others; and then from a template of positive relatedness, extend this relateness and achieve greater levels of sustainable independence, both within our services and beyond.
