Anxiety disorders can have a profound effect on our lives, and at St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, we offer specialised treatment for people experiencing them. On this episode of Mental Health Conversations, Shane Kirwan meets Frank Smith, Clinical Nurse Manager 2 on our Anxiety Disorders Programme. They discuss the various difficulties that the programme is designed to treat, some of the key ideas behind Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), how care is structured and what it involves. We a...
In St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, we offer a range of specialist services designed to meet the care needs of service users experiencing certain mental health difficulties. One of these specialities is our Eating Disorders Service which provides care for adults who have eating difficulties. On this episode of Mental Health Conversations, host Aoife Farrington meets Gráinne O’Connor, Clinical Nurse Manager of our Eating Disorder Day Care Programme. Gráinne describes what the programme inv...
The role of the mental health nurse involves many things, but, at the core, it’s all about helping people to get better. In this episode of Mental Health Conversations, Clinical Nurse Manager Jenny Judge describes the day-to-day aspects of her job, what she finds rewarding about her role, and the positive impact that she hopes to have on the people in her care. We hear a powerful story from Jude McCarthy, a former service user, about her time in St Patrick’s – what led to her admission, ...
An introduction to this brand new podcast series, brought to you by St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Ireland’s largest independent mental health service.