We recognise how important quality of life is to a person’s recovery and have created an environment which promotes rehabilitation and community integration.
At Pinetree Hospital we offer a dedicated 20-week assessment and treatment pathway with a focus on community discharge from day one. For those who require further complex treatment and rehabilitation, Pinetree has developed additional specialist and distinct treatment pathways.
Experienced in working with people with learning disabilities, our specialised multidisciplinary team has designed our care pathways around Positive Behavioural Support (PBS) approaches, alongside our uniquely developed person-centred model of active support, Building Better Lives (BBL).
Building Better Lives
Tailored to create positive measurable outcomes, our BBL programme looks at the whole person and helps individuals to develop the skills they need to move on to a more independent life.
A focus on five different themes enables every individual to engage in bespoke activity programmes, allowing them to actively develop their own personal goals plan and ensuring they are working towards discharge from the very outset.
Treatment Pathways
Assessment, Treatment and Discharge Pathway
(0-20 weeks)
Our Assessment, Treatment and Discharge Pathway provides for individuals in crisis with rapid access to a safe learning disability-friendly environment, where they will receive a comprehensive assessment by our specialist multidisciplinary team.
Rehabilitation Pathway
(timescale agreed at CPA)
For those with co-existing mental illness, personality disorder, forensic risks or complex behaviours that challenge, rehabilitation can require a longer period of specialist assessment and treatment in a hospital setting.
Our Rehabilitation Pathway focuses on formulating and evolving an individualised, person-centred PBS plan that provides individuals with enhanced support and responds to risks, whilst maximising their quality of life.
Forensic Pathway
(timescale dependent upon individual need)
For those with specific forensic risks a Forensically-Informed Psychological Intervention Pathway is available.
This pathway is available to individuals who present with the following risks:
- Verbal threats to harm
- Physical aggression (inc. environmental damage)
- Intimate partner violence (emotional, verbal and physical)
- Sexually harmful behaviour (threatened/attempted/actual assault, inc. possession of indecent images)
- Fire-setting
Adapted DBT Pathway
(timescale dependent upon individual need)
For those with a diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder, or who present with emotional/relational instability, an adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy informed pathway is available.
This pathway is based upon delivering the DBT modules of mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance.
Complex ASC Pathway
(timescale dependent upon individual need)
For individuals diagnosed with an Autistic Spectrum Condition, or presenting with traits related to this condition, the following interventions are available based on individually assessed need:
- An autism-friendly environment
- Speech and Language Therapy assessment and intervention
- Augmentative communication
- Structure and predictability
- Sensory assessment and intervention
- Social stories to promote engagement in activities of daily living, community participation, and understanding of social situations
- Visual Aids to support routines
Complex Behavioural Pathway
(timescale dependent upon individual need)
Individuals placed within Pinetree Hospital who are identified at initial assessment / preadmission as presenting with high levels of behaviours that challenge (including multiple or complex behavioural issues, significant psychological distress or unstable mental health difficulties) are placed on this pathway for input from nursing, psychiatry, psychology and multidisciplinary professionals i.e. OT & SALT.
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