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Mental Health Services

Description

Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses and therapists provide a wide range of mental health services throughout Sun Country Health Region. Services are available on a full-time basis at the clinics in Weyburn and Estevan. Part-time clinics are held on a regular basis in various communities throughout the region.

Addiction Services
The goal of Addiction Services is to restore, maintain and enhance the recovery of people seeking help for addiction and/or addiction related issues through the promotion of healthy attitudes, behaviors and lifestyles. Assessment and recovery services, community development and resource services are available. Services for problem gambling are also provided.

Child and Youth Services
Specialized services are available for young people (0 - 18 years of age) and their families. Services include assessment, treatment and case management for a wide range of emotional, developmental, and behavior disorders. Speech language services are available to pre-school children and their families.

Adult Services

• Therapy for people who are experiencing stress, anxiety, depression or contemplating suicide.
• Therapy/support for individuals who are having difficulty coping with their day to day life.
• Couple counselling.
• Therapy for eating disorders.
• Therapy for survivors of abuse.
• Grief counselling.
• Psychological testing including intellectual, personality and other individual, specialized assessments.
• Advocacy of good mental health through public education and promotion.
• Interventions for community members in response to traumatic incidents.
• Consultations and referrals to the appropriate service agents as required.
• Alternatives to Violence
• Sex Offender Program 

An Antidepressant Skills Workbook  is available free from this location:  http://www.comh.ca/antidepressant-skills/adult/resources/index-asw.cfm

Rehabilitation & Residential Services
The goal is to promote, preserve and restore the mental health of persons with long-term mental illness. Services include screening, assessment, case management, residential services, consultation with long term care facilities, and education.

Inpatient Services
There are times when the severity and nature of a mental disorder requires a brief period of hospital care. The Weyburn
Mental Health Inpatient Unit offers
hospitalization services, including assessment, treatment, life skills development, and discharge planning with a multidisciplinary approach.

Day Hospital Program
The Outpatient Day Program is part of an interdisciplinary program designed to develop essential social skills and abilities that will enable the client to achieve their highest level of functioning. This program also provides assessment, stabilization, skill development and support.

Consultation
Consultation services are available to other professionals (e.g. family doctors, lawyers, courts, clergy, teachers and other community agencies).

Obtaining Service

Although clients are referred by their family physician or psychiatrist, this need not always be the case. If you are interested in receiving services, or would like further information about services, please contact the Intake Worker.

Contact

Arcola Mental Health Arcola Health Centre P.O. Box 419 Arcola, SK S0C 0G0 Tel: (306)455-2159 Fax: (306)455-2397	Estevan Mental Health St. Joseph's Hospital 1174 Nicholson Road P.O. Box 5000-202 Estevan, SK S4A 2V6 Tel: (306)637-3610 Fax: (306)634-2015	Kipling Mental Health Kipling Memorial Health Centre Box 420 Kipling, SK S0G 2S0 Tel: (306)736-2638 Fax: (306)736-8185
Weyburn Mental Health Community Health Services Building 900 Saskatchewan Drive P.O. Box 2003 Weyburn, SK S4H 2Z9 Tel: (306)842-8665 Fax: (306)842-8690 Toll Free: (800)216-7689	Emergency Psychiatry Services: 24 hours, 7 days per week Tel:(306)842-8665

For new referrals within the health region, please contact the Intake Office at (306) 842-8665 or toll free (800) 216-7689.

Population Served

Services are available to who may be experiencing emotional difficulties, problems in living and/or psychiatric disorders that interfere with daily functioning or healthy relationships.

Confidentiality

Our staff hold all client information as confidential and will only disclose information under one of the following circumstances:

• with the consent of the client
• when ordered by the courts
• when child abuse or neglect is suspected
• when self harm or harm to others may occur.
  

Service Providers

Psychiatrists are medical doctors trained in psychiatry and can prescribe medication to treat emotional and/or mental illness or disorders.

Psychologists have graduate degrees in clinical psychology and specialize in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. Assessment may include either intellectual or personality testing.

Social Workers have professional degrees and help to identify and alleviate social problems. They provide counselling to individuals, couples, families and groups.