Meditation techniques should be widely available on prescription, say experts today, pointing to evidence that emptying the mind is more likely to help people out of the cycle of recurrent depression than pills. Meditation may for some evoke images of Buddhist chanting and the Beatles bedecked with flowers in their period of devotion to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, but today a mental health charity is launching a campaign to make “mindfulness” courses based on meditation available widely on the NHS.
CBTMeditation on prescription: charity urges new remedy for depressionTuesday, January 5th, 2010Mental distress, CBT and employmentMonday, December 7th, 2009The plans, which will make mental health treatment and particularly cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) central to the fight to get Britain back to work after the recession, will eventually see centres providing CBT set up around the country. Jobless to be offered ‘talking treatment’ to help put Britain back to workMonday, December 7th, 2009Jobless Britons are to be offered therapy to help them get back into work, under a “talking treatment” programme to be announced by the government over the next few weeks Speech by the Rt Hon Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Health, 26 November 2009, New Savoy Partnership Conference: Psychological therapies in the NHSTuesday, December 1st, 2009Speech to the New Savoy Partnership 26 November 2009 It’s a pleasure to join you at a conference renowned for breaking new ground in mental health policy. Whether I manage to live up to this tradition, I’ll leave you to judge. The context of NHS reform ‘Doctors should stop pushing drugs at depressed people’Thursday, November 26th, 2009Despite a large increase in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) doctors are still pushing drugs at patients, according to Dr Jennifer Wild, a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry. In this week’s Scrubbing Up, she argues that GPs need to understand that psychological therapies like CBT work and should choose to offer them. NHS will provide relationship counselling to depressed couplesTuesday, November 24th, 2009Couples will be offered counselling on the NHS if their relationship problems are causing depression, the health secretary has announced New Services Added to WfW MapFriday, November 20th, 2009Wave 2 Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) sites went live last month in London and as they establish themselves they are sending us information about their services so we can update the services map. To date 15 PCTs have IAPT services, these are:
Instant messaging can help depressionTuesday, August 25th, 2009An article about computerised CBT (cCBT). It also includes some useful general links about depression That pop-up message window may be an irritant to many of us, but new research shows it can be used as an aid to getting over depression.
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