Another Email FOI request sent today about Psychology in Psychosis, NHS Fife:
"Dear Mr Kellet
I am writing to ask for further information about Psychology in Psychosis (PIP).
This
year I am continuing to research safe haven crisis houses in the UK and
Ireland, to find out the benefits of avoiding psychiatric inpatient
treatment, how this may achieved, developed in Scotland, for people
coming through psychosis. For my family since the 1950's our treatment
when experiencing psychosis has been coercive, retraumatising,
disabling, painful, taking away our human rights, in every decade since
then, until now. I want to see better, humane, person-centred support
for my family in the future when they happen to find life traumatic and
require help through psychosis or altered mind states. Avoiding
stigmatising and discriminatory diagnoses and labels which dehumanise.
Here
are some questions which I hope the Psychology Service NHS Fife can
answer so as to help with my understanding of what PIP in Fife consists
of:
- what types or approaches of psychological therapies are practised by clinicians in Fife who work with people coming through psychosis? eg CBT, IPT, mindfulness, ACT, psychotherapy, psychodynamic
- when
does a person experiencing psychosis engage with a clinical
psychologist in Fife? eg does this, can this happen in NHS Fife acute
wards before patients are given any neuroleptic meds? are there
any patients experiencing psychosis in the community who engage with
psychology services in NHS Fife? I am trying to find out if anyone
experiencing a psychosis can be helped through without becoming a psychiatric inpatient
- I would like to know what the different psychologist "roles"
are (apologies if I'm not very clear about terminology, I'm not sure
what's on offer in Fife, having only engaged with Clinical Psychologists
since 2003) eg are there Counselling Psychologists, Psychotherapists;
Psychodynamic Counsellors, Cognitive Behaviour Therapists? Or other
therapist job titles. I'm keen to know if psychologists employed by NHS
Fife have experience in a wide range of approaches and therefore can be
flexible in working with, alongside people/patients experiencing
altered mind states, psychosis and extreme emotional distress who still
have insight. [I came through another psychosis in 2015 avoiding
psychiatric treatment, had insight, reasoned through altered mind
states.]
I'm copying in Doctors Cheshire and Baty, for their
information, hoping that they can help enlighten me as to the choices
available in Fife for people experiencing psychosis. In my family's
experience it was neuroleptics first, coercively given if we resisted,
and we only were offered Clinical Psychology when on neurotoxins,
sedated by drugs, meaning that listening therapies were mostly
ineffective.
I want to see a turnaround in the treatment of
psychosis, in Fife and Dundee where my family live, to begin with. I do
believe that psychosis is transitional, a journey, an escape, which,
with the proper support and help for the person to understand their
journey and what led them into a psychosis, can be life enhancing and
strengthening. That was my experience in 2015/16 and far less traumatic
when avoiding coercive medications/neurotoxins.
I look forward to hearing a response to my FOI request.
Regards, Chrys"
I've forwarded this Email on to DClinPsy academics in an attempt to rattle their cages, make them care about people experiencing psychosis who don't want to be drugged with neurotoxins, and their Mother Carers.
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26 January 2018: FOI request: Step on Stress; Psychology in Psychosis; NHS Fife