THE LANGFORD CENTRE
THE LANGFORD CENTRE
THE LANGFORD CENTRE
Located within the seaside town of Bexhill on Sea, The Langford Centre is a mental health hospital providing services to adult males and females within a variety of services including acute services, and low secure services.
Located within the seaside town of Bexhill on Sea, The Langford Centre is a mental health hospital providing services to adult males and females within a variety of services including acute services, and low secure services.
The hospital is located in a convenient location providing the town centre and sea front within walking distance, alongside good links to public transport, with the station within walking distance and bus stops outside the hospital providing easy access links to Eastbourne and Brighton.
The hospital is located in a convenient location providing the town centre and sea front within walking distance, alongside good links to public transport, with the station within walking distance and bus stops outside the hospital providing easy access links to Eastbourne and Brighton.
The Langford Centre comprises of three wards. All wards have access to their own private garden and therapy kitchens. All bedrooms are en-suite and there is a communal laundry room on each ward.
We have fantastic links with various community organisations, including Bexhill college (where our clients are able to access various college courses), East Sussex football disability leagues, East Sussex disability cricket league, Bags of Taste, East Sussex Recovery College, Hastings furniture restoration, Kiss my Disco, Barby Keel Animal Sanctuary, Chilli farm and many other community organisations that help our clients become re-integrated.
Interventions & Expertise
All patients will have a 12-week assessment process from admission to establish their individual needs and develop a bespoke recovery pathway, identifying recovery goals collaboratively with their psychologist.
Following this, each patient will receive an individual therapy timetable and embark on their recovery pathway. During this they will have access to both one to one and group interventions which include:
- Hearing voices
- Self esteem
- Social skills
- Substance misuse
- Mindfulness
- Emotion regulation
- Distress tolerance
- Relationship skills
- Anger management
- Building resilience
- Coping skills
- Stress, vulnerability & anxiety management
- CBT
- DBT
- Schema focused work
- Social perspective taking
- Cognitive skills
- Maintenance and relapse prevention
Offending behaviour programmes including interventions focused on:
- Substance misuse
- Alcohol misuse
- Mental health awareness and relapse management
- Restorative intervention
- Cognitive skills
- Anger management
- Physical violence
- Developing and enhancing family relationships
- Sexual offences, stalking, arson
- Addressing negative peer relationships
- Social perspective taking
The Multi-Disciplinary Team consists of:
- Consultant psychiatrist & responsible clinician
- Speciality doctor
- Consultant forensic psychologist
- Consultant clinical psychologist
- Psychology assistants
- Occupational therapist
- Assistant occupational therapist
- Social worker
- Registered nurses
- Support workers
- Speech and language therapist
