Complex Care Service (CCS)
Explore the Complex Care Service for comprehensive support for personality disorders.


Complex Care Service (CCS)
At Spectrum, we recognise that addressing complex mental health issues necessitates a compassionate, thoughtful, and client-centred approach. Our mission is to empower clients through therapeutic engagement, skill-building, and ongoing support, fostering resilience and promoting sustained recovery.
Spectrum’s Complex Care Service (CCS) offers specialised, tailored support for individuals with personality disorders who have complex needs. These needs may include co-existing medical or mental health conditions, higher or worsening risk factors, or additional challenges in their personal or social circumstances.
CCS provides a flexible, personalised and graded approach, taking into account each person’s unique situation and offering care that meets them where they are. This comprehensive service ensures that individuals receive the right treatment and support to help them manage their condition and improve their overall well-being.
Clinical interventions
Direct clinical interventions include:
Flexible and graded therapeutic individualised treatment approach
Extended assessment for diagnostic clarity and development of shared formulation and/or
Consideration of family work
Systemic interventions include:
Providing secondary consultation to the treating team to support an individualised, trauma-informed treatment and care plan approach
Multi-service consultation for enhancing and supporting consistency and cohesion among multiple services involved in the person’s care
Offering reflective practice to teams for enhancing cohesion in the support of the person
Providing training and support for treatment teams and other support services
Supervision for primary clinicians working with the person and/or
Family and/or carer consultation and support, either independently or collaboratively with the wider treatment team, to support inclusion of families and carers in treatment planning.
Contact the Spectrum intake team for more information or referral
Phone: (03) 8413 8750 (ask for the intake team)
Email: [email protected]