The service is delivered and managed by the trust, with a core team based in Abu Dhabi.
Our clinicians visit Abu Dhabi regularly to provide additional expertise, training and consultation.
Our mission is ‘to achieve the best possible outcomes for children, young people and adults with mental health problems living in the Middle East’.
We do this by delivering comprehensive high quality assessments, using the most up-to-date appropriate tools and effective, evidence-based interventions. Our services are centred on children, young people, adults and their families and carers and are delivered with compassion and respect.
Maudsley Health accepts referrals of children, young people and adults with emotional, mental health and/or developmental difficulties:
- Autism spectrum disorders, learning difficulties
- Attention deficit disorders, tic disorders
- Mood disorders: depression, mania and bipolar affective disorders
- Anxiety and stress related disorders: obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, generalized anxiety, post traumatic stress disorders, reaction to severe stress and attachment disorders.
- Conduct disorders, personality disorders
- Organic conditions, including psychosis
- Medical conditions with associated psychological difficulties
We are committed to working flexibly with young people and their families in settings that are comfortable for them such as in schools, in the home or via telephone.
The service promotes emotional health and wellbeing for people of all ages through direct care and training and consultation to other local agencies. We regularly work with:
- Family doctors
- Pediatricians
- Schools and school counselors
- Social workers
- Psychologists
- Clinicians from allied health professions such as speech and language therapists and occupational therapists.
- We also provide external supervision to other local mental health clinicians.