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Black Rock Psychiatric Hospital
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The psychiatric hospital in Barbados is located in Black Rock, St. Michael and is called Black Rock Psychiatric Hospital.
The site was an old plantation house that was purchased by the Ministry of Health in 1891 and admitted it's first patients in 1893.
It has 640 beds, of which the average number of patients is around 530 at any one time, this increases over the Christmas and Crop Over periods. They provide health care services for all mental illnesses and social illnesses such as those that result from substance abuse.
On an average month they treat around 45 out patients, who attend the hospital for counselling and therapy sessions. The hospital provides 24 hour care, 7 days a week with nursing care available for both in and out patients.
These nurses also run a Child Guidance Clinic to help children suffering with a variety of mental disorders.
There is also an Occupational Therapy Unit, run by occupational therapists to help patients with their life skills and function. As well, vocational skill programs develop concentration and cognitive skills through activities such as building furniture.
They offer Community Services through a half way house in St. Peter, which helps patients move back in to the community. This combined with the District Nursing Service allows the psychiatric service to keep an eye on patients and ensure they are settling back in to the community and to monitor their behavior.
In order to help the public understand mental and physical illness they also operate a Community Outreach Programme, which shows some of the causes of mental illness, which gives people a better understanding and helps them appreciate that mental illness is an illness like any other physical illness.
Under the remit of the Ministry of Health, is the provision of Social Services, which acts to prevent crises within the family and places children who are considered at risk in their home environment.
They also offer Psychology Services for Women; as yet there is no facility for males.
The Forensic Unit is also located at the Black Rock facility, along with an Electrocephalography machine, which is the only one of its kind in Barbados. This machine is able to monitor brain activity and gives more in depth exploration than a CAT scan.
For further information on the work of Black Rock Psychiatric Hospital you can call the main switchboard at (246) 425-8680 or (246) 425-8688.
» The Out Patient Clinic can be reached at (246) 425-6362.
» The Social Work department can be reached at (246) 425-7192.
» The Occupational Therapy Unit can be reached on (246) 425-7209.
» The Psychology Department can be reached on (246) 425-7188.
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Information Assumed Accurate On: May 8, 2007
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By: Jean Lynch Fray
thanks for the good care you give to the mental health patients.As a child growing up in
deacons road near the Hospital I marvelled at the
patience of the nurses toward their patiets.It's one of the reasons I became a Registered and District Nurse. I have never regreted the fifty seven years of my life that I gave the to the English and Canadian communities.
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Date: Aug 3, 2011
By: Claudio Rodeschini
Thank you a lot for the cure you have done to me, when i was there in december 26 1987 ,until the thirty first of january1988,i was recoverd in the criminal ward of your hospital ,can you tellme if there is in there Colin Burke ,i was friend of him,best wishes from me ,I am is nearly one year I do not take a medicine and I am ok and finally recoverd my self.Thank you a lot .Yours Faithfully Rodeschini Claudio.
Date: Feb 5, 2011
By: Rosalind Lawrence-Antoine
Hi
My name is Rosalind Lawrence-Antoine and Iam a barbadian living in America.I hold a Bachelors degree in psychology with a consentration in addictions counseling and,I'm currently working on my masters in psychology.I work in the Mental health field as a lead crisis worker, my primary job functions are to assess crisis: by responding to community base crisis such as suicide attempts, homicide attempts related to psychosi, involuntery comittment to a psyciatric inpatient hospital,medication non-complience resulting in psychosis or depressive symptoms and, assistaing individuals reintergrate back into the community. I'm interested in return home to Barbados in the very near future and would like to know if there are any suggestion you can offer me in the way of employment opportunities in my field.Ilook foward to your comment and I thank you.
Date: Sep 6, 2010
By: Andrea Bonds
Hello:
My name is Andrea Bonds I am a psychiatric nurse in American. I am Barbadian and would like to move back home. Could anyone assist me with contacts in the Mental Health arena. I work with children but am trained in Adolescent, Adults and Geriatric Psych. My email: aybonds@msn.com
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Date: Mar 29, 2010
By: Allison Mackenzie
HI, I would be interested in job vacancies in the hospital, I am a qualified psychiatric nurse, but couldnt find a link for vacancies on the web, could someone help.
Thanks Allison
Date: Mar 27, 2010
By: andrea
the hospital see much more than 45 out-patients in a day. you need to say 45 outpatients in the counseling department, because there is an outpatient clinic which see over 70 clients daily, I am a nurse there, who worked in that department, we see clients ranging from 2years in the child guidance clinic and adults up to any age.The outpatient clinic opens Monday-Friday from 8:30 to 4:30pm
Date: Feb 23, 2010
By: Ammna Uddin
hi im a mental health student from the UK and if it is possible to do a placement over in this hospital.
sorry for any inconveniance caused.
Date: Oct 7, 2009
By: Sara-Jane Sheehy
I am making an inquiry to find my old friend Ted Young. I am planning a holiday to Barbados next year and I was wondering if he was working in your hospital.
I would very much like to meet up with him. I am sorry to distrub you.
Sara-Jane Sheehy
Date: Sep 1, 2009
By: Ann Bossers
I think one of the paragraphs on your website could be changed for accuracy as follows :
There is also an Occupational Therapy Unit, run by occupational therapists to help patients with their life skills and function. As well, vocational skill programs develop concentration and cognitive skills through activities such as building furniture.
Date: Nov 13, 2008
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