Digital Interventions
Contact us
The Digital Interventions service is based at:
Digital Interventions
Department of Psychological Services & Research
Mountainhall Treatment Centre
Bankend Road
Dumfries DG1 4AP
Tel. 01387 244495,
Open Monday to Friday, 8.30am-5pm, for enquiries.
Who We Are
The Digital Interventions Service is hosted by Psychological Services. This service delivers a range of supported and unsupported packages via our SilverCloud platform.
Staff involved in the service are:
- Ross McCole (Digital Interventions Coordinator)
- Kathryn McKie (Administration Manager)
- Dr Fionnuala Edgar (Consultant Clinical Psychologist)
- Emma Weems (Assistant Psychologist)
The Digital Interventions team are based within the Department of Psychological Services at Mountainhall Treatment Centre.
The Service can be accessed across Dumfries and Galloway from home PCs/laptops or computers and smart phones, and at community locations such as local libraries.
Referral Information
Who is SilverCloud suitable for?
- People with low to moderate difficulties with stability in their everyday life.
- People aged 16 years and over who are motivated to making positive changes in their life.
- If you have access to a PC or laptop with internet connection, a smart phone or can attend a community location (e.g. local library)
- If you are able to understand self help material with a reading age of 11-years.
How do I get referred?
To be referred to any of the supported SilverCloud pathways please speak to a healthcare professional.
To access any of the unsupported SilverCloud Wellbeing programmes please follow the links provided, and use the PIN Scotland2020 when prompted.
Sleepio and Daylight
For access to Sleepio and/or Daylight, please use the following links:
http://www.trydaylight.com/nhs
https://www.sleepio.com/nhs
What We Do
SilverCloud is a computerised Digital Interventions package suitable for individuals aged 16+ with mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety. All packages involve self monitoring of mental health, completing quizzes, watching case studies and learning about and applying Digital Interventions techniques. Individuals are supported by and provided with regular online reviews by the Digital Interventions co-ordinator or Assistant Psychologist, where their progress can be monitored, they can access help to use the materials, and they can be provided with personalised recommendations of further resources within SilverCloud.
SilverCloud has specific packages for individuals with the following difficulties/long term health conditions:
• Depression and Anxiety
• Depression
• Generalised Anxiety
• Anxiety
• Health Anxiety
• Social Anxiety
• OCD
• Panic
• Phobia
• Challenging Times
• Diabetes
• Chronic Pain
• Perinatal Wellbeing
• Lung Conditions
• Heart Disease
• Arthritis
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Breast Cancer
The SilverCloud service also has pathways on Sleep, Resilience*, Stress*, Money Worries*, Positive Body Image*, and Coronavirus. You can choose which pathway you think best suits your needs; alternatively there is a Wellbeing Questionnaire within SilverCloud which will give you advice on which pathway it thinks may suit you. Feel free to explore the information relating to each of the pathways before deciding. It is important to note that the SilverCloud Wellbeing programme is unsupported and does not come with an allocated Clinical Helper.
*These programmes can also be tailored to our student demographic.
For information on our Digital Interventions SilverCloud Wellbeing pathways, click here.
We also offer 2 further unsupported packages which are accessed in the same way as the SilverCloud Wellbeing packages above, and are available as an app. They offer shorter ‘sessions’ and are a bit less text heavy.
Daylight (for anxiety): Daylight’s digital anxiety improvement programme can help you control feelings of worry and anxiety, using proven evidence-based techniques.
Sleepio (for insomnia): Sleepio’s online sleep improvement programme can help you get to the root of stubborn sleep, using proven evidence-based techniques.
You can find more information about both these programmes at https://www.bighealth.co.uk/daylight/ and https://www.bighealth.co.uk/sleepio/
For more information, please get in touch via email on dg.ccbt@nhs.scot or call 01387 244495.