Critique Of IAPT On BBC TV
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)
The IAPT Service Is an Abject Failure
This article by Michael Scott has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “In 2012, an editorial in the prestigious journal Nature claimed that the UK’s IAPT Service is ‘world-beating’—meaning that the service is the world’s best for treating mental health concerns. Now that 10…
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CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami
‘I feel imprisoned’: why loneliness won’t be solved by national planners
“As lockdown eases, the government’s fixation on top-down strategy is risking the mental health of the loneliest citizens” A centralised approach characterises many government schemes in relation to mental health and wellbeing (the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, for…
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The Industrialisation of Care: counselling, psychotherapy and the impact of IAPT
This book has been edited by Catherine Jackson and Rosemary Rizq. The publishers say: “The UK government’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme has transformed the landscape of counselling and psychotherapy across England. Local IAPT services provide therapy to thousands…
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Third Wave CBT Integration for Individuals and Teams: Comprehend, Cope and Connect
The publishers say : “This book [published December 2017] introduces a therapy that starts from the perspective of the immediate experience of the individual -‘what it feels like to be me, now’. Developed by the authors, this new, transdiagnostic approach to mental…
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NICE under scrutiny
Although several years old, this paper – “NICE Under Scrutiny” still has great relevance. It looks at the impact of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines on the provision of counselling/psychotherapy in the UK. Produced by…
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Handbook of Person-Centred Therapy & Mental Health
The Handbook of Person-Centred Therapy and Mental Health (Theory, Research and Practice), edited by Prof. Stephen Joseph, challenges the use of psychiatric diagnoses and makes a powerful case for the effectiveness of person-centred approaches as the alternative way to work with people who would otherwise be diagnosed with…
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