Search our resources library for self help guides, patient information leaflets, mental health and wellbeing information that you may find useful.
This booklet is for you, your family and friends if you have been referred for/or considering Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). It has been produced to try and allay your fears by providing pictorial information about the department and explain what will happen when you come for treatment.
This Leaflet is for Edenwood at the Carleton Clinic - Cumbria which is a unit for men with learning disabilities who need specialist hospital care because of their behaviour and/or mental health.
Information produced by Royal College of Psychiatrists. This leaflet is for anyone who wants to know more about ECT (Electro-convulsive therapy). It looks at how ECT works, why it is used, its effects and side-effects, and alternative treatments. Although a safe and effective treatment, ECT remains controversial and we have included some of the different views about it.
Information about your stay at Elm House. Elm House is a community based rehabilitation service, situated in Bensham, Gateshead. The service is for men and women over the age of 18 years, who live in the Gateshead area.
This leaflet contains information about staying on Embleton Ward, an acute admissions ward based at St George's Park.
Easy read information about the Epilepsy Specialist Nurse. This explains what they do and how they can help.
This leaflet provides information about the impact your mental health can have on your physical health, recommendations for exercise and how to access exercise therapy.
Information about the importance of exercising with a neurological condition, the benefits, recommended amount of exercise and precautions.
Family Therapists offer therapeutic support to individuals who are troubled by a mental health problem and to their relatives or others who are close to them (for instance, partners or close friends).
This leaflet provides information about not eating or drinking (fasting) before ECT treatment for adults. The information provided is based on the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland guidelines for fasting times alongside input from medical professionals working at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.
