Video and Audio Recordings
In this section:
Video Clips
- The State Hospital (Carstairs) - A World Success Story Deserving to be told in Scotland (June 2021).
- Treatment technique reaches patients with an intellectual disability never before reached (June 2021).
- The world looks to Scotland’s State Hospital to learn (June 2021).
- The secret of success at Scotland's State Hospital: Realistic Medicine (June 2021).
- Peace and safety landing zone: State Hospital, Carstairs. You can’t argue with nature! (June 2021).
- The State Hospital’s Professor Lindsay Thomson on the physical health needs of offenders with mental health disorders. Premature morbidity is still a massive problem. Obesity is a particularly damaging problem in forensic patients (October 2019).
- Crossing boundaries: mental health and mental disorder, care and punishment (2017).
Audio Recordings
Videos
The State Hospital (Carstairs) - A World Success Story Deserving to be told in Scotland (June 2021)
Scotland’s State Hospital, Carstairs... time to tell it like it really is! Is the State Hospital at Carstairs the most misrepresented institution in Scotland? Almost certainly. The public perception is of a dark and dangerous place. The word notorious almost always accompanies its description. It is time to debunk the myths about Scotland’s State Hospital – “Carstairs”. A hospital … not a prison where psychiatrists and psychologists are pushing the boundaries of treatments to achieve previously un-heard of levels of progress and success for patients.
Read the Media Release
to find out more ….
Link to associated video - https://youtu.be/vbKWD72j0U0
Treatment technique reaches patients with an intellectual disability never before reached (June 2021)
Patients admitted to Scotland's State Hospital have a range of mental and physical health care needs. Within the Intellectual Disability Service, patients often have a number of co-occuring conditions. To meet the needs of this complex patient group, a highly dedicated and skilled staff team provide individualised care. In this video we hear from Dr Jana de Villiers, Consultant Psychiatrist for The State Hospital's Intellectual Disability Service.
Read the Media Release to find out more ….
Link to associated video - https://youtu.be/xs5oSyynhPQ
The world looks to Scotland’s State Hospital to learn (June 2021)
Scotland has developed a Global Citizen programme to export knowledge and best practice from specialist areas such as forensic mental health to countries around the globe who are eager to evolve and improve their own services through skills training and support. The lead for Scotland in this field of psychiatry / mental health is Dr Khuram Khan, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at Scotland's State Hospital, Carstairs.
Read the Media Release to find out more ….
Link to associated video - https://youtu.be/pndzie1SbfE
Dr Gordon Skilling, Forensic Consultant Psychiatrist and lead for The State Hospital's Realistic Medicine programme, reveals the secret of success through its award winning and world-leading 'Realistic Medicine' approach. Embedded within this approach is respect and partnership working, which is empowering staff and patients to influence change with extremely positive results.
Read the Media Release to find out more ….
Link to associated video - https://youtu.be/mAHcwuqFAz0
Scotland’s coastline is home to thousands of Eurasian Oyster Catchers birds - but right now is when flocks of them head inland to seek out safe and peaceful sanctuary to make their nests. These distinctive black and white wading birds make their nests at ground-level on grassland and they rely on instinct to locate the safest spots from the threat predators and disturbance.
For hundreds of pairs this means a short migration to what would seem like a highly unlikely location … Scotland’s high security State Hospital at Carstairs.
Read the Media Release to find out more ….
Link to associated video - https://youtu.be/XJVhJzgTPzc
Audio Recordings
Consultant Nurse, Dr Patricia Cawthorne explains the building blocks that are delivering unrivalled success for patients at Scotland’s State Hospital (June 2021)
Dr Patricia Cawthorne, Consultant Nurse specialises in the delivery of psychological therapies within The State Hospital's high-secure environment. Aspects of this key clinical leadership role includes the education, training and development of nursing and other staff to enable the effective delivery of psychological interventions, and the integration of multiple psychotherapeutic models within the Hospital and wider forensic services across Scotland. In this video, Dr Cawthorne shares her broad experience of delivering behavioural psychotherapy interventions for forensic patients with psychosis and / or personality disorder. She stresses the importance of a team approach to enhance and strengthen the efficacy of psychological interventions.
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