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An Alternative to CBT in Primary Care?

By routinely measuring outcomes over a number of years, a primary care mental health team in Central Lancashire has found that person-centred therapy can provide an effective alternative to CBT in a stepped care model of service delivery by Isabel Gibbard and Nick Baker


The Emotional Cost of Debt

One in 11 people in Britain say they are in debt or arrears – and for people with a mental health issue that figure rises to one in four1. A 2008 report published by Mind2 states that, for some people, mental health problems are ‘a pathway to debt’; for others debt is ‘a pathway to mental health problems’. Yet, continues the report, health professionals are failing to engage with the issue. Why? Apparently because they lack the relevant knowledge to do so.

 

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.

One in four people aged 100 show clear signs of depression

Fewer than a third of these had been officially diagnosed by a GP. Age Concern painted a similar picture, with its figures showing two million UK pensioners affected by depression.


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.





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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.

 

 

  

 

  

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