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You can contact us at Esteem from Esteem North Monday to Friday Nevis Building - Stobhill Hospital between 9am – 5pm 133 Balornock Road Glasgow G21 3UW At other times you can obtain Tel: 0141 531 3207 advice by phoning: ________________________________ Esteem South and Clyde Admin Building - Leverndale Hospital Information 510 Crookston Road Glasgow G53 7TU on Esteem Tel: 0141 211 6563 www.nhsggc.org.uk/esteem MI • 292565 v1.1 What Is Esteem? What About Hospital? What Happens Next? Esteem is a mental health service for Sometimes a short stay in hospital is You will have regular reviews during people aged 16-35 who appear to be needed, especially when people are very your time with Esteem. These reviews experiencing a first episode of psychosis. distressed by their experiences. If this will involve everyone working with you in We have four teams working in Greater is the case, Esteem will remain involved Esteem, as well as any family or friends Glasgow and Clyde, and they work with during and after a hospital admission to you wish to come along. young people for up to two years. try to avoid any further admissions. These reviews give everyone an Esteem offers different types of support opportunity to discuss how things are which have been shown to help people What Can Esteem Help With? going and what else might be needed to recover from psychosis, including Esteem will work with you to help you cope help your recovery. You will be given a medication, practical support, family work as much as possible by: written record of these reviews to ensure and psychological therapy. you understand what has been discussed. • Helping you try to understand the things that led to your experiences of What Can You Expect? psychosis What Happens After Esteem? Firstly, you will have a period of getting • Exploring ways to help with your Many people who work with Esteem make to know different workers from Esteem to recovery a full recovery within two years and do make sure we are the right service to help • Working with your family and friends not need follow-up from another mental you. If we do not think we are the right to encourage positive relationships health service. This means their care is service for you, we will explain the reasons returned to their GP. for this and find the right team to support • Offering practical support with things like housing or finances For others, the recovery process can take a you. bit longer, so their care will be transferred Once we have agreed that Esteem is the • Supporting you to return to work, to another service (usually their local right team for you, you and your family university or college, or identifying Community Mental Health Team) for more will begin to work with your key-worker. ways to spend your time input at the end of the two years. If this is Your key-worker is usually a nurse or an Esteem can also work with your family and the case, this will be discussed at your pre occupational therapist (OT) and will help friends by: discharge review and Esteem will support you think about what might be most useful • Involving them in all aspects of your you in the initial stages of contact with the to you during your time with Esteem. care, if you feel this would be helpful new team until you feel more comfortable Your key-worker may introduce you to • Offering evening group sessions for with them. different people in the team who can help support (called “Friends and Family”) you with different things, like a psychiatrist • Offering family work to talk about medication, a support worker • Offering individual therapy to family to get you out and about or a clinical members psychologist for talking therapy..