General

Question 1

Where are people with mild mental illness managed?

Answer 1

GP / primary care counselling

Question 2

Where are people with mild-moderate mental illness managed?

Answer 2

GP / IAPT
(Improving Access to Psychological Therapy - NHS service designed to offer people short-term psychological therapies)

Question 3

Where are people with moderate-severe mental illness managed?

Answer 3

If able to engage / manageable risk…
GP and CMHT

• Early intervention services
• Secondary care psychotherapy services
• Community hospitals and day services

Question 4

Where are people with severe mental illness managed?

Answer 4

• HTT / crisis resolution team

If unsafe to manage in community…

• Psychiatric ward - voluntary or sectioned

Question 5

What is the hierarchy of mental illness?

Answer 5

Must treat in this order:

1. Organic pathology
2. Psychosis
3. Affective (mood)
4. Neurosis (anxiety etc)
5. Personality
6. No mental illness (lying etc)