Adult Psychiatry

Banksia House - Professorial Unit

  •      Acute adult psychiatry
  •      Mother and baby program and an eating disorder/mood disorder program.

 

Diagnostic groups:

  •      Eating disorders
  •      Mother & Baby – Post Natal Depression, Post Partum Psychosis
  •      Mood Disorders – Depression, Bipolar Disorder
  •      Anxiety Disorders - Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

 

Occupational Therapy interventions:

  •      Meal preparation – shopping and cooking
  •      Creative group
  •      Cooking and domestic skills group
  •      Stress management group
  •      Mother baby interaction groups
  •      Individual work
  •      Functional Assessment - personal care, domestic, community
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Acute Psychiatry Unit

Diagnostic Groups:

  •      Polysubstance Abuse
  •      Acute Psychosis 
  •      Bipolar Disorder
  •      Major Depressive Episode
  •      Borderline Personality Disorder
  •      Schizoaffective Disorder
  •      Delusional Disorder

 

Occupational Therapy interventions:

  •      Creative Group
  •      Healthy Lifestyle Group
  •      Cooking group
  •      Walking group/Exercise group
  •      Assessments
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Bunjil House

Long term rehabilitation in a secure environment

Occupational Therapy interventions:

  •      Living Skills Assessment and Training
  •      Re-integration into the Community
  •      Running groups focusing on leisure, personal development, living skills etc
        
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Mobile Support Team

A mobile outreach service for clients aged 16-64 living in the City of Banyule and shire of Nillumbik. They typically have a long standing psychiatric illness and whose needs are not able to be met by traditional community mental health centres or community based rehabilitation services.

The approach taken in rehabilitation is based on the case management model of care. The team is a multidisciplinary one. Each case manager has a maximum caseload of 7 clients and they work extended hours, Mon - Fri 8.00am - 9.30pm, Weekends and Public Holidays 8.30am - 5.00pm.

Occupational Therapy interventions:

  • Consultative orientated role.
  • Co workers are provided with advice and resource information that is based on guiding principles of Occupational Therapy.
  • Clients receive rehabilitation within the same framework and psychosocial model of care.
  • The approach is holistic
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Brain Disorder Program

  • The Brain Disorders Unit (inpatient unit with 10 acute psychiatric beds and 20 transitional nursing home beds)
  • Step 2 (supported 3 bed transitional living house)
  • CBDATS (community brain disorders assessment and treatment service)

 

Diagnostic group:

  • Adults aged between 18 and 65 years
  • Must have an existing brain injury with co-morbid psychiatric diagnosis

 

Occupational Therapy in the BDP:

.5 OT at the inpatient unit, which involves

  • Assessments of and intervention in occupational performance in personal care, domestic and community skills
  • Behaviour modification
  • Development and co-ordination of patient’s attendant care programs
  • Input in the ward activities and groups program

 

.5 OT at CBDATS

  • Secondary consultation and short-term case management
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