The ‘You in Mind’ care framework provides details of the types of services that may be available to you, if you are experiencing difficulties with your mental health.

Step 1: Self-directed help and health and wellbeing services

Support at this level usually involves responding to stress and mild emotional difficulties which can be resolved through making recovery focused lifestyle adjustments and adopting new problem solving and coping strategies.

Step 2: Primary Care Talking Therapies

Support at this level usually involves responding to mental health and emotional difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Recovery focused support involves a combination of talking therapies and lifestyle.

Step 3:  Specialist Community Mental Health Services

Support at this level usually involves responding to mental health problems which are adversely affecting the quality of personal, daily, family, or occupational life.  Recovery focused support and treatment will involve a combination of psychological therapies, drug therapies, or both.

Step 4: Highly Specialised Condition Specific Mental Health Services

Support at this level usually involves providing care in response to complex and specific mental health needs. Care at this step involves the delivery of specialist programmes of recovery focused support and treatment delivered by a range of mental health specialists.

Step 5: High Intensity Mental Health Services

Support at this level is usually provide in response to mental health needs, including adopting new problem solving coping strategies, which involves the delivery of intensive recovery focused support and treatment provided at home or in hospital.