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The Voices of the Cassel centenary project has won the BIG South London’s Health & Care Collaboration of the Year award with partners Roehampton University and On The Record. Roehampton’s Tony Paraskeva (School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) and Yeva Feldman (School of Psychology) collaborated with The Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust (CHCT) and On the Record on […]
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Please do support us at our forthcoming Charity Quiz night. Reserve your place on eventbrite and pay the £5 entry donation at the door. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-cassel-charity-quiz-night-registration-745307102607?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Whilst the pandemic interrupted our lives, we continued to work on a number of new developments and planning to celebrate the Cassel Hospital centenary. This impact report covers the last two years of our work. Read on to find out more about our achievements.
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New research has been published in BJPsych Open by the Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust’s (CHCT) collaboration between King’s College London, and the University of Bristol. The project used novel approaches to explore measures of severity of ‘personality disorder’ using routine data from electronic health records (EHRs). Novel approach to health service data Research lead Dr […]
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The Cassel is an NHS specialist mental health hospital that promotes the care and treatment of adults and young people affected by the difficulties associated with personality disorders. The CHCT supports the Cassel’s clinical team by funding social and occupational services to promote people’s recovery and return to regular daily life. It is rewarding work […]
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Patients at the Cassel experience a ‘living and learning’ environment that helps break the cycle of treatment. Opening The Cassel hospital’s summer conference, Dr Miriam Barrett, Consultant and Inpatient Lead, described the Cassel’s 24/7 treatment model. Dr Barrett explained that patients are vital to their own, and each other’s treatment, living for nine months in […]
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Five Cassel Hospital service users (patients and ex-patients from the Cassel Outreach service), were funded by the CHCT Service User Involvement Fund (SUIF) to deliver a presentation at the 2023 BIGSPD Conference in Glasgow.In their presentation – When Patients Become the Treatment: Reflections on Community-Based Treatment for Complex Trauma and Personality Disorders at The Cassel- they reflected on […]
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The Cassel Hospital and Charitable Trust were delighted to welcome Richmond MP Sarah Olney to visit the centenary quilt display during Mental Health Awareness Week 2023. Sarah met the Cassel staff and CHCT Trustees and heard directly from Hannah Cadogan about her own journey and how the idea for the centenary quilt had been developed. […]
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Courage is not the absence of fear A community approach to working with complex trauma For over a century, the Cassel Hospital has functioned as a therapeutic community in which patients with severe and enduring mental health problems and a multi-disciplinary staff team work together to bring about change to lives blighted by complex trauma. […]
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To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week (Monday 15 May to Sunday 21 May), the Cassel Hospital Centenary quilt will be displayed at Ham House and Garden, a nearby National Trust property in Richmond. The quilt consists of exactly 100 ‘diamonds’, produced by patients, carers and staff past and present, and aims to reflect the […]
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