Specialist Services
Bryn Melyn Care offers an integrated therapeutic service to children and young people with a wide variety of both acute and chronic needs. These are often complex and enduring and may be expressed through a range of troubling behaviours.
Attachment difficulties
Early childhood trauma
Inappropriate sexualised behaviour (ISB)
Sexually harmful behaviour (SHB)
Anti-social behaviour
Challenging behaviour
A range of other needs
Many of the young people we work with have highly problematic attachment patterns, and some will also present a range of other needs including:
Emerging personality disorders
Issues of mental health and wellbeing
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Our Method
Young people live in one of our intensive therapeutic homes with experienced residential workers operation as a dedicated team. This provides stability and normality, and allows us to concentrate on individual needs.
As a result, we quickly see significant improvements in their social, intellectual, vocational and personal skills. The homes (and schools) are supported by ongoing input from the clinical team to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach.
The focus is on behavioural targets and we ensure the young person achieves them by creating tailored packages of assessment and intervention that are underpinned by recognised cognitive behavioural principles.
We continuously monitor behaviour which allows us to accurately identify patterns, measure change an deliver the appropriate therapeutic interventions by our highly qualified team.
Families are encouraged to maintain links, subject to review decisions, and home visits or overnight accommodation for the young person’s family are regularly organised.
Our staff
All therapeutic practice is delivered by qualified care staff and is informed by our in-house clinical team of psychologists and psychotherapists. Only experienced managers or clinicians are given responsibility for supervision and case management.
All staff have a sound understanding of and training in child protection protocols and relevant child care legislation. The team’s specialist skills portfolio includes cognitive-behavioural programmes; strengths-based models, relapse prevention, sexual education, group work, social skills training, mediation, anxiety and anger management. We have specific experience of multi-agency public protection and risk management in the community.