CBT
Monday, May 10th, 2010
Working for Wellness (WfW) is the London regional implementation team for the national Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme (IAPT). WfW is hosted by Commissioning Support for London (CSL) who support Commissioners to deliver the Healthcare for London strategy.
This is the third year of the programme and to date WfW have helped to successfully establish 15 IAPT sites in London, recruiting nearly 400 trainees and treating nearly 15,000 people.
National funding has helped create a new workforce able to deliver evidence based cognitive behavioral therapy to people with depression, anxiety and/or phobias.
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Tags: CBT, High Intensity, IAPT, London, Low Intensity, PWP, WfW
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
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.
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Tags: anti depressants, CBT, depression, meditation, mental health, NHS
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
The 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.
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Tags: CBT, employment, jobs, mental health
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Jobless 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
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Tags: CBT, employment, IAPT, jobs, mental health, unemployment
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Speech 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.
Read the full speech here
The context of NHS reform
Tags: CBT, IAPT, psychological therapies
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Despite 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.
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Tags: anti depressants, CBT, IAPT, mental health
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Couples will be offered counselling on the NHS if their relationship problems are causing depression, the health secretary has announced
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Tags: CBT, couples, depression, IAPT, mental health, NICE, talking therapies
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Wave 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:
- Camden
- City and Hackney
- Ealing
- Greenwich
- Haringey
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Islington
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Newham
- Southwark
- Sutton and Merton
- Tower Hamlets
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
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Tags: anxiety, CBT, depression, IAPT, London, phobia, PTSD
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
An 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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Tags: CBT, cCBT, depression, IAPT, mental health
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