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Therapeutic Services
Therapeutic Services Overview
1848 provides young people with an in-house multi-disciplinary Wellbeing Team, including; Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy. To enable a truly bespoke service, we also utilise a diverse range of therapeutic approaches from outside providers such as equine therapy and art therapy.
Therapy is offered in a truly integrated form, with flexible delivery in 1:1 or small group sessions and in a setting that suits each young person. The Wellbeing team further imbed therapeutic support through provision of specialist training based on subject and individual young person need. The Wellbeing Team ensure a close working relationship with local CAMH’s services.
Wellbeing Team Outcome Measurement
The Wellbeing Team utilise a range of resources to baseline assess each young person who joins 1848. This includes formal assessment such as the Beck Youth Inventories™ - Second Edition for Children and Adolescents (BYI-II), CELF -4 (Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals 4th Edition UK).
Informal Assessment such as Communication and Pragmatic profiles, Strengths and Needs questionnaires including by proxy of carers/social workers/family, Verbal Reasoning and Problem Solving assessments, Emotional Literacy to inform Zones of Regulation to name some. In addition to this all the Wellbeing Team conduct structured and informal observations in different contexts and join the staff meetings to learn about each young person in the first four week assessment period.
Once baseline measures have been undertaken, the Wellbeing Team combine this with the young person’s goals and care plan aims to formulate SMART targets. These targets are communicated to the Home team to ensure a holistic approach is used to generalise skills and awareness generated through direct therapy. The young person will have an understanding of the target in a low-pressure format.
The young person is also supported to create a bespoke Positive Behaviour Support Plan which highlights any needs they have and how they want staff to consistently support them. The monthly review of these plans demonstrates to the young person that their strategies and regulation abilities improve through time and is cause to celebrate the changes and developments noted in their plan.
Introducing the Onsite Wellbeing Team
Jane Begley
MPsych.Psych. PGCE BA, Specialist Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist
Jane is a fully qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist who completed her professional training at The Tavistock & Portman in London. Her first degree was a BA in Combined Arts and she went on to train as a secondary Art teacher. She fell into the field of children’s mental health by accident and in so doing discovered her calling. She has spent the last 30 years working with children and young people in a variety of settings, including an inpatient psychiatric adolescent unit, a specialist school for disabled children, a young people’s therapeutic community, as well as 17 years working as a clinician in CAMHS. The latter post included carrying out assessments of young people who had been admitted onto the children’s ward following self-harm or attempted suicide.
Throughout her training and beyond, Jane has developed a special interest in working with children in care and with those who have suffered from severe attachment trauma through abuse and neglect. She has completed Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) Level One, with Dan Hughes and DDP Level Two with Julie Hudson, who is one of the foremost DDP practitioners in the UK. She is currently training to become a fully qualified DDP practitioner.
Vicky Hayward
RGN, RMN, BSc (Hons) Community Health Care Nursing, Diploma of Higher Education Cognitive Behaviour Therapy/Health Studies
Vicky has worked in mental health for over thirty years which has included working in an Acute setting and within the community. She worked for CAMHS for 12 years as the self-injury nurse specialist for Somerset. In addition, she is a recognized ASIST trainer (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Trainer) and has provided training on suicide prevention and risk for a variety of public and private organisations. She has a diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and has further qualifications as an AIM2 assessor (sexually harmful behaviour in children). Vicky is also a registered General Nurse.
Kerry Laing
SROT, BSC Hons
Kerry was first drawn to the profession of Occupational Therapy when considering A level options and spent a lot of time volunteering with therapy departments in Somerset. Kerry qualified 25 years ago. She was passionate about working with children and her first job as a qualified therapist was in a paediatric service and despite having moved around the country during her time as a therapist she has continued to always work in this field, mainly within the NHS.
Over the years Kerry has gained vast experience and knowledge of assessing children and young people, providing intervention and advice and reviewing their needs. Kerry has always worked with children and young people with a whole range of conditions from physical disability to behavioural issues.
She is a clinical specialist in the area of sensory processing difficulties and is trained to level 3 standards with SI network UK and Ireland. This is Kerry’s area of passion and the young people she enjoys working with and supporting the most.
Kerry currently provides a therapy service in an SEN residential college in Minehead working with young adults with learning difficulties.
Kerry has provided a service, as a private practitioner, to 1848 ltd since September 2020. Her role is to assess and provide recommendations and interventions around a young person’s sensory needs, motor coordination needs, self care skills and the ability to engage in everyday functional tasks.
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