Brent Centre For Young People - MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE

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MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE - Psychotherapy

Our Clinical Staff offers highly skilled psychoanalytic psychotherapy. We also offer psychological help to families and parents. All of our Clinical Staff are members of the British Confederation of Psychotherapists (BCP), the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP) or the British Psychological Society and most of them are also psychoanalysts.

Adolescents attending our Walk In and Referral Service Mental Health Service have their needs assessed at weekly clinical staff meetings. This enables staff to identify adolescents who would need and benefit from psychotherapy or other psychological therapies. They are expected to have had or be at risk of a mental breakdown. Some may present eating or self-harm disorders others may misuse drugs and alcohol.

We offer up to three years psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Cases are discussed regularly in our Psychotherapy Meetings. An outcome evaluation has being implemented (designed by Dr. Mary Target, PhD - Senior Lecturer at the University College London, Department of Psychology).

Aims of Psychotherapy:

To help adolescents understand their inner difficulties;
To reduce mental anguish;
To help adolescents with their emotional development;
To prevent emotional breakdown;
To reduce suicide attempts;
To enable adolescents to cope with school and work;
To reduce the negative effects of a damaged and damaging family background;
To prevent the perpetuation of mental disturbance from one generation to another

We are seeking further funds to maintain and extend this important service.