{"id":18,"date":"2025-12-19T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/cns\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:36:30","slug":"assessment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Your assessment<\/h2>\n<p>The assessment allows us to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is Complex Needs Service a good fit for your needs at this time?<\/li>\n<li>Have you experienced pervasive and long-term difficulties which are commonly associated with personality disorder?<\/li>\n<li>Do you feel able to engage in group therapy and is group therapy likely to benefit you?<\/li>\n<li>Are you motivated to make changes to your life at present and do your current circumstances allow you the time and energy to meaningfully engage in therapy?<\/li>\n<li>Are you willing to work towards changing any unhelpful or destructive coping strategies?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What does it cover?<\/h2>\n<p>The assessment will cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your current difficulties including mental health symptoms and experiences<\/li>\n<li>Your feelings, thoughts and behaviours<\/li>\n<li>Your physical health and wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Your social circumstances: housing, finances\/debt, employment, support network, if you are a parent or carer, your culture and ethnic background, gender and sexuality (where relevant)<\/li>\n<li>Your personal and family history including relationships<\/li>\n<li>Your use of drugs or alcohol<\/li>\n<li>Past experiences, especially of similar problems and previous treatments<\/li>\n<li>Risk assessment<\/li>\n<li>Your goals for therapy: what you wish to work on or changes you wish to make<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Where does it take place?<\/h2>\n<p>The assessment is usually completed at our main base in Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>Assessments take place over a number of sessions and will be completed by a Complex Needs Service therapist.<\/p>\n<h2>Therapy sessions<\/h2>\n<p>After assessment, if therapy with our service is appropriate, service users are placed (with their agreement) on a waiting list to start group therapy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"nhsuk-action-link\"><a class=\"nhsuk-action-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/therapy\/\" target=\"_self\"><span class=\"nhsuk-action-link__text\">About group therapy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your assessment The assessment allows us to consider: Is Complex Needs Service a good fit for your needs at this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/ocns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}