Centre de compétences en psychiatrie et psychothérapie (Sion)

Center of Competence in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (CCPP)

CHVR's Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy offers human and professional therapeutic skills to people suffering from mental disorders, helping them to find the best possible relief.

Children, teenagers, adults and the elderly in psychological, existential or relational distress (as well as their families) who require the help of specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy, can at any time, directly or through their family doctor, call all the Centres de Compétences de Psychiatrie & Psychothérapie (CCPP) on the single number : 0800 012 210.

The CCPPs provide the following services:

• Outpatient psychiatric and psychotherapy consultations
• Psychiatric emergencies, including emergency health services
• Therapeutic day clinics
• Interventions in the community by mobile teams
• Consultation and liaison psychiatry for all CHVR somatic establishments and the Hôpital du Chablais
• Supervision of mental health expertise in primary care and somatic medicine
• Coordination of the Réseau Entraide Valais (REVs): health promotion and prevention

Therapeutic modalities can be provided on site, in the home, at all Valais Hospital facilities, or with partners in the health and social services network, on an emergency or planned basis. Treatments are applied individually, in families, in groups or in workshops, according to the main models recognized in psychiatry and psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, systemic).

CCPPs bring together the expertise of multi-disciplinary teams of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and medical-technical carers specializing in perinatal care, children and adolescents, adults and the elderly. They work in the comprehensive treatment of mental suffering and disorders, psycho-oncology, palliative care, difficult bereavement situations, intra-family abuse, trauma, eating disorders, mental disability, prison medicine and psychiatric expertise.