Enduring Mental Illness

Eastbourne Clinic has been open since 1994 primarily as a private provider of acute nursing care.

Since it's conception it has become apparent that there is a deficit in the provision of care for individuals who no longer strictly meet the criteria for an acute admission bed, neither are they able to fulfil the sometimes rigid requirements of a specialist facility e.g. therapeutic community. These individuals, who fall under the generic term of having enduring mental health problems, can at times be supported in community care schemes, however, others can not. This may be due, to a myriad of factors including mal-adaptive coping mechanisms, such as self harming behaviours.

At the clinic we are able to provide an 8 bedded unit with a specialist multi-disciplinary clinical team, where a modified therapeutic community programme can be offered to individuals who fall into this category.

We envisage this programme being suitable for individuals with such diagnoses as:-

• Borderline Personality Disorders
• PTSD
• Stress/Anxiety reactions
• Eating Disorders
• Dual Diagnosis
• Individuals who do not meet DSM criteria of diagnosis.

For more information contact:

Julia Wood at Eastbourne Clinic on (01323) 430831

or E-Mail admin@eastbourneclinic.com