Mental Health Services - Adult

Our team of Psychiatrists consult on site or locally in sessional rooms providing inpatient and/or outpatient care. A referral from your GP is needed.

The following Psychiatrists are accredited at Mitcham Private Hospital.

Victoria Court is a 21 bed acute mental health unit, specifically designed to treat patients with a range of mental health concerns including;

• Depression
• Mood and Anxiety Disorders
• Stress and Grief
• Bipolar Disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
• Decline in daily functioning at home or work
• Medication Changes

Victoria Court provides a multi-disciplinary team approach: Group therapy is daily; it is a goal focused approach to wellness which enables the patient and the treating team to identify and streamline an individual care pathway that best suits the patient.

Common goals identifies include;

• Anxiety Management
• Stages of Change
• Self-Awareness
• Communication skills

Once discharged, service delivery can extend to Day Patient or Community Out-Reach. Planning for discharge involves the multi-disciplinary team and will start on day one of admission and can include the patients’ nominated carer and/or family.

This 5 day service can be linked to an inpatient stay or used as a stand-alone intervention.

All patients attending the Day Program must be under the treatment of a consultant psychiatrist at Mitcham Private Hospital.

Day Program can assist patients during the transition period following discharge and/or during times of crisis that require supportive interventions but not necessarily requiring an in-patient stay.

The day patient program delivery is an evidenced based therapy approach, facilitated by a multi-disciplinary team of mental health professionals.

Program outline:

Mood Disorders - most suited to patients who have a diagnosis of a mood or anxiety disorder and who will benefit from strategies to manage symptoms, problem solve and improve impersonal skills.

Life links – This is a structured group program that offers treatment to people with a variety of mental health diagnosis at different stages in their recovery. This program is a transition from inpatient care to the community.

Jump to it – tailored for those patients who have an addiction or ritualised thinking that requires them to change. This program teaches patients to enhance life skills using a “Dual Diagnosis” approach to therapy and engaging motivational interviewing in relation to lifestyle changes who want to make positive rewarding recovery focused changes in lives.

Jigsaw – The aim of this group is to accept what is out of your personal control, whilst committing to do whatever is in your personal control to improve your quality of life. This group is suitable for anyone struggling with chronic depression, self-harming behaviours and thoughts, grief and loss and relationship issues.

Let’s get creative – The purpose of Art therapy is for participants to learn about themselves through creative expression and therapeutic group work. They can then use this knowledge to make meaningful, life enhancing change during the recovery process and to maintain wellness.

For further information please contact the Day Program Coordinator, Victoria Court Tel: 9210 3334 or e-mail Mentalhealth.MPH@ramsayhealth.com.au.

The Community Outreach Program provides mental health treatment and therapeutic support to enable individuals to recover, develop coping strategies and maintain wellness. The program seeks to minimise the disruption that can occur in a person’s day to day living by reducing the length and frequency of hospital stays and providing recovery focused community care.

The community outreach program is only available for patients already accessing the in-patient service.

Referrals can be made by general practitioners and psychiatrists by completed a Mental Health Services Referral form and faxing to the intake co-ordinator at Victoria Court Fax (03) 9210 3225.

Please contact us on 9210 3155 to enquire about special self-funded rates, health fund rebates and work cover funding.