Philip currently works in the NHS with the following client groups:
- Adults with learning disabilities, in a community service. Clients are referred by professionals such as a social worker; they usually live in supported accommodation and come in to visit the unit where he is based.
- Adults with mental health problems, including schizophrenia and personality disorder, drug/alcohol issues, mood disorders. This work is based in two linked low-secure wards. One is a rehabilitation ward where clients stay for 6 months to 2 years; the other is a PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit). He carries out both family work and music therapy sessions in these wards.
Previous experience includes:
- A high secure psychiatric hospital (3 years). Patients here were clearly challenging in many ways, and had a wide variety of difficulties, including schizophrenia, personality disorder and learning disabilities.
- Children with learning disabilities
- A medium secure unit for people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
The conditions represented in my present/past caseload include schizophrenia/psychosis, personality disorder, autism, Rett syndrome, Williams syndrome, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Tourette syndrome, San Filippo syndrome.
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