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Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams

These teams provide a rapid response to crises 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. The teams also provide intensive community based treatment to support people in the acute phase of illness, which reduces the need for hospital admission. If you do need to come into hospital, the teams can work with you and your family carers to support your return home.



Area serviced:  Suffolk
Address:  St Clements Hospital
Foxhall Road
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP3 8LS
Telephone:  01473 329000
Fax:  01473 329019
Email:  No
Website:  No
Opening times:  24 hours
Who is it for:  People with mental health problems
Languages:  Language Line
Access for people  
with disabilities:  		Yes
Childcare:  No
Buses:  Yes
Train/Tube:  No
Parking:  Yes
Sector:   Statutory
Last updated:  05/10/2009

Subject Definitions

Expand/collapse icon Mental Distress

Mental Distress is a term used, both by some mental health practitioners and users of mental health services, to describe a range of symptoms and experiences of a person's internal life that are commonly held to be troubling, confusing or out of the ordinary; it can refer to a wide range of experiences, from relatively mild and transitory states to more chronic and severe conditions. Mental distress has a wider scope than the term 'mental illness'. Mental illness refers to a specific set of medically defined conditions. A person in mental distress may exhibit some of the symptoms described in psychiatry, such as: anxiety, confused emotions, hallucination, rage, depression and so on without actually being ‘ill’ in a medical sense. Life situations such as: bereavement, stress, lack of sleep, use of drugs or alcohol, assault, abuse or accident can induce mental distress.Some people use the terms mental distress and mental illness interchangably.

Expand/collapse icon Mental Health

'Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity' (World Health Organisation). Mental health can be conceptualized as a state of well-being in which the individual realizes their own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to their community.

Expand/collapse icon Mental Illness

Mental illness is a term that describes a broad range of mental and emotional conditions, which could be mild to moderate to severe in effect and which could be characterized by impairment of an individual's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic, or other factors, such as infection or head trauma. In most cases people make a full recovery (just as with physical illness) and return to a good quality of life.
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