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Evidence-based practice
Evidence-based practice is a policy maker’s dream, a wish for what science would be: totally free from human contamination, utterly beyond question and absolutely clean. Over the last decade there has been a huge rise in the use of the phrase ‘evidence-based this or that’, especially amongst those who want to please policy makers. In some corridors, it has taken on a very special meaning indeed: it is a shibboleth, a magic word – it has a hypnotic effect.
It is time to subject this process to a critical and urgent analysis. A major new conference entitled ‘Psychological therapies in the NHS: science, practice and policy’ sets itself the task of ‘examining the challenge of evidence-based practice for the psychotherapy professions’. 
What is counselling worth?
CREATE Swansea Mental Health Services
CREATE (Community Rehabilitation Employment Assessment Training Enterprise)
CREATE Swansea provides mental health services through an alliance of mental health day service providers in the Swansea area who offer help and support for people who suffer severe mental health disabilities or illness.This is achieved through developing the skills and abilities of day service users. Through rehabilitation, education and training in the community CREATE aims to improve the quality of life for those affected by mental illness.
CREATE members have signed-up to this Joint Service Philosophy statement:
"CREATE is a joint working partnership involving statutory and voluntary services, committed to providing access to quality services, tailored to meet the needs of individual mental health service users."
Referrals for mental health day services in Swansea are made through CREATE, providing a "one-stop shop" for all referrals and assessements for day services.
Information on the full range of services is provided to everyone at an initial screening assessment. Emphasis is placed on creating service packages that meet individual client need. These packages regularly involve more than one service and the individual's programme will evolve as their need changes. Crucially, service users can try a range of services and choose those services they feel most comfortable with and or best meet their needs. Services are mainly based at, or operated from Cwmbwrla Day Services
Latest news on employment and training for people with mental health disabilities in Swansea, Wales UK.
Over-use of pills and poor mental health services are failing the public
Britain is a "Prozac Nation" facing a crisis in mental health care, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg will warns.
Depression leads to worst health
"While treatments for most physical health problems are readily accessible, mental health treatments such as talking therapies are limited, with some patients waiting months or even years for their first appointment with a therapist."
Huge rise in prescriptions to under-16s for depression and mental health disorders
The number of prescriptions handed out to children under 16 for depression and mental health disorders has quadrupled in a decade.
Mental health bill 'concessions'
Ministers have made some concessions to campaigners over the planned changes to mental heath laws.
Mental illness is now the second largest reason for UK workers taking time off
A study by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development found an increasing amount of sickness leave is due to depression or stress.
Detaining People Under The Mental Health Bill
Controversial plans to allow mentally ill people to be detained against their will, even if they have not committed a crime, are due to be discussed by MPs.
Mental health overhaul demanded
Radical changes should be made to mental health services in England over the next decade, leading health and social care groups have said.
Demand for NHS 'therapy network'
'Talking therapies' can help people cope with depression. It is estimated that about one in four of us experience mental illness in our lifetimes. There is strong evidence that many patients could be helped by psychological therapy.
iMind.org MentalHealth Directory
Wales Pages Web Directory
Ending the Stigma of Mental Health
A report by the Social Exclusion unit has prompted the Goverment to investigate attitudes towards mental illness.
Therapy & Therapists
There may be a time
when family and friends don't have the expertise to help - and you might wonder where to turn next.
The experiences of mental health uk service users as mental health professionals.
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 has focused the attention of health and social care employers discrimination within the workforce. This small exploratory study by Vivien Lindow and Susan Rooke-Matthews asked a range of mental health uk professionals about their experiences as members of this workforce and their recommendations for change.