Difficulties relating to Personal Injury

Incidents involving personal injury are often traumatic experiences.  Depending on the nature of the injury or incident, an individual may suffer from psychological distress.

Travel anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, adjustment disorder, anxiety, and depression are all common difficulties after a personal injury such as a road traffic accident.  Moving Minds deals with a large volume of personal injury cases and assists clients in returning to their pre-accident level of functioning.

Difficulties relating to Absence from Work

According to the mental health charity MIND, in the past five years, stress has been the number one cause of absence from work.  This poor mental health management has an overall cost to UK employers of nearly £26 billion.

However, stress, if targeted early, can be very amenable to psychological treatment.  For many low-level psychological difficulties or for early intervention, Moving Minds offers COPE, a unique telephone management service delivered by our experienced psychological case coordinators.  A low-cost, high-value alternative to face to face treatment, COPE equips individuals with the tools needed to return to work.

For cases in which psychological difficulties have been present for a prolonged period of time, face to face intervention may be required.  Our network of clinicians can provide solution-focused treatments using CBT or EMDR, exclusively evidence based treatments.

Critical Incidents

A critical incident does not only affect the people directly involved but can also be extremely traumatic for observers.  Normally, it takes one month after a critical incident for natural healing to occur.  However, before this point a person may show signs of an acute stress reaction, with symptoms such as nightmares, intrusive thoughts, low mood, anger, irritability, and avoidance.

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) does not recommend critical incident debriefing.  Instead, Moving Minds offers proactive and reactive support services, as well as a trauma helpline.  Our trauma awareness training can also be helpful after a critical incident.

In this article published in Post Magazine, Moving Mind’s Dr Manda Holmshaw discusses the right and wrong responses in dealing critical incident debriefing and emotional distress.  Read it here.

Combat Veterans

Here at Moving Minds, we have specialist knowledge of combat veterans.  Experts in treating traumatised individuals, we also train specialists and clinicians who work on the frontline abroad and back home in the UK, treating members of the armed forces who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

These training programs are offered by EMDR Extra, a sister company to Moving Minds.  Research has shown consistently that EMDR is extremely effective and widely accepted by soldiers.

Abuse

The extent of the consequences of abuse in children and adults has received heightened awareness in recent years.  In adults, traumatic memories may be long-buried, relating to abuse in childhood but can be nevertheless treated successfully with sensitivity.

In children, treatment is often surprisingly brief, enabling survivors to move on quickly, thus minimising and even eradicating any long-term damage.  Moving Minds’ network of clinicians specialising in this sector are experienced and closely supported and supervised by our head office’s multi-disciplinary team of experts.

Questionable Treatments

Unfortunately there are other therapies such as “Rewind” therapy, “Human Givens”, and certain kinds of hypnosis which are increasingly widely used, sometimes by practitioners with scant basic mental health training.

Such therapies should be avoided until they gain is as much empirical evidence available as there is for CBT and EMDR.  Moving Minds is a signatory to the Rehabilitation Code of Best Practice.  We work both independently of the litigation process and also, in the case of medico-legal reports, for the courts.