Mount Elizabeth Behavioural Health Services
Mount Elizabeth Behavioural Health Services is a private behavioural and psychological health service that operates within Mount Elizabeth Hospital's acute care infrastructure. At Mount Elizabeth Behavioural Health Services, we strive to provide the most appropriate care to our clients through a strengths-based approach which helps clients to achieve holistic well-being.
Established since 1986, Mount Elizabeth Behavioural Health Services provides professional counselling and psychotherapeutic services, psychological assessments and inpatient acute psychiatric care.
Fitted with comfortable bedded rooms, a recreation room, consultation rooms, and an art therapy room, our inpatient ward provides a warm and therapeutic environment where clients feel safe and secure as they embark on their journey of recovery. It is viewed as a place of respite from life stressors. The ward is specially designed to protect clients in the event of a crisis or extreme behavioural expressions.
Our Multi-disciplinary Team
In a truly multi-disciplinary fashion, our highly qualified and experienced team of psychiatrists, counsellors, psychologists, and nurses collaborate closely to deliver excellent professional and compassionate care.
The team works together effectively to meet the needs of each individual client. In a short period of time, this approach enables the client to gain an understanding of the presenting issues and to work towards viable solutions.
Full Range Care
Mount Elizabeth Behavioral Health Services provides a comprehensive range of services including outpatient services like initial consultation, psychological assessments, counselling, psychotherapy, expressive and activity therapy, therapeutic and support groups as well as inpatient care.
The services we offer include:
- Help for emotional, behavioural and relationship issues
- Adult psychiatry
- Psychiatry for the elderly
- Adolescent psychiatry
- Treatment for alcohol and drug addiction
Our continuum of care is designed as a seamless approach in making behavioural health care available at different levels of need. Our treatment approach is always tailored to the needs of each individual client. This continuum of care begins with a phone call to our Helpline 1800-738-9595, which is available 24 hours, 7 days a week. Thereafter, you may wish to follow up with an initial consultation with our professional counsellors and psychologists who will help you understand your concerns and support you to work through your issues.
Intensive Inpatient Treatment
Mount Elizabeth Behavioural Health Services adopts a customised Treatment Team approach for our clients. Our multidisciplinary team will work closely with the client to develop an individualised and comprehensive treatment plan from inpatient stay to after-discharge programme.
Structured Inpatient Care includes:
- Individual Therapy helps clients to gain a better perspective on their problems and develop alternative solutions.
- Family Therapy provides psychoeducation for the family and facilitates the role of family support in the client's recovery.
- Art and Activity Therapy helps clients develop self-awareness, learn problem-solving techniques and in turn enhance self-esteem and self-efficacy.
- Education and Support Groups are designed to help clients build important social, interpersonal and life skills.
- Medication Management aims to provide the client and family members the information about medicine, its side effects and the significance of compliance.
- Discharge and Aftercare Planning helps clients to achieve their continuous well-being through follow-up counselling sessions and tailored day programmes after discharge.
Outpatient Services
We offer the following outpatient services:
Psychological Assessments are conducted by our professional psychologists and aims to identify psychological, emotional, conduct, behavioural or learning issues. Psychological tests are tools that help you to better understand your abilities, personality, cognitive, and emotional functioning and make positive life changes.
The range of psychological assessments we provide include:
- Intelligence tests measure your level of intelligence i.e. your basic ability to understand the world around you, assimilate its functioning apply this knowledge to enhance the quality of your life.
- Neuropsychological tests are used to assess impairment in psychological functions due to injury or illness that can cause brain damage.
- Personality tests help you to understand the kind of person you are and they way you think, feel, and act.
- Specific clinical tests measure particular aspects of functioning, such as attention deficits and hyperactivity, presence of disordered eating, or levels of anxiety and depression.
Individual Therapy helps individuals experiencing personal life challenges gain a better perspective of their problems and develop alternative solutions in working towards their therapeutic goals.
Family Therapy aims to provide clients and their family a platform to share their views in order to facilitate the achievement of positive solutions.
Couple Therapy helps couples to identify challenges in their relationship and marriage in order to improve the dynamics of relating with each other.
Addiction Counselling aims to help and support clients suffering from addiction break out of their cycle and embark on a relapse prevention programme.
Specialised Programmes
We also customise programmes to suit the needs of our clients. Some of these programmes include:
- Art Therapy. Research has strongly supported the significant role of art as a healing process for individuals experiencing difficulties and distress in life. Art therapy has helped people with broken relationships, illnesses, traumatic experiences, or who are stuck and unable to move on. We offer individual and group sessions of art therapy which are highly personalised to different needs.
- Eating Disorders Programme. For individuals suffering from eating disorders, we offer you a respite from the world, to reflect and relearn skills for meaningful living. A holistic approach is used to nourish your body, enrich your mind and refresh your spirit.
- Corporate Talks. When employees take personal ownership of their health, there is lower absenteeism and greater productivity in the workplace. Employees will learn techniques to manage their stress for improved concentration, confidence and overall wellbeing.
Expressive Therapy
At Mount Elizabeth Behavioral Health Services, we respect the different needs of our patients. We understand that conventional talk therapy may not be suitable for or benefit everyone. Catering to our patients' preferences, various modalities of expressive therapy are used during counseling and psychotherapy to help patients express their innermost feelings and thoughts in a healing and life-enhancing approach. These modalities include free play, art, story-telling, drama, and poems. The creative product is often a focus for reflection and discussion within the therapy session.
Life doesn't have to be hard, when calling Mount Elizabeth Behavioural Health Services is easy.
1-800-738-9595.
24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Mount Elizabeth Behavioural Health Services
Mount Elizabeth Hospital Level 10
3 Mount Elizabeth
Singapore 228510