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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"improving access to psychological therapies"”.
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South Asian Indian patients’ perspective of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) interventions for depression in Primary Care : a qualitative & grounded theory analysis study
BackgroundMental Health is paramount to personal wellbeing, building relationships and making contributions to society, (Thornicroft, Rugerri & Goldberg, 2013). With the population of the United Kingdom constantly changing over the past decades, primary care services within the National Health …
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‘I sort of feel that one is meant to say how important endings always are…’ Counsellors’ experiences of endings in primary care : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… acknowledged as crucial for therapeutic gains to be maintained over time, yet numerous authors comment on the paucity of termination research. There appears to be no extant research into counsellors’ experiences of ending time-limited counselling in primary care (CPC), despite this being a …
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Cultural differences impacting on therapists’ interpretation and understanding of clients’ appraisals in post-traumatic stress disorder
The primary aim of this study is to explore the impact of cultural differences on therapists' interpretation and understanding of clients' appraisals in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A review of the literature provides only limited information on how therapists interpret and understand …
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Men's experience of infidelity in hetrosexual commited relationships : an interpretative phonomenological analysis
Although the prevalent attitude towards infidelity in British society is that it is wrong, 50-65% of couples enter therapy due to problems with infidelity. Past research studies tend to focus on predictors of infidelity to help identify the offending partner’s risk factors. Despite the prevalence …
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A qualitative study of the therapeutic alliance during telephone cognitive behavioural therapy: Clinicians’ perspectives
… CBT-based telephone interventions with a view to furthering our understanding of the therapeutic alliance as a theoretical construct, and informing the development and implementation of telephone-delivered interventions. Methods: Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 …
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The Experiences of Cognitive Behavioural Therapists when delivering Manualised Therapy to Black and Minority Ethnic Clients
Rationale: This study was conducted to help improve mental health care for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) clients as previous research carried out in non-western countries has suggested that western-developed psychotherapies often need to be culturally adapted to become more effective in treating …
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A client focused perspective of the effectiveness of counselling for depression
… in the UK receive any form of treatment. To address this, the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) program was established, ensuring people accessing NHS treatment had choice. Initially the only therapy commonly available was Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), raising …
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The association between work-related potential stressors, self-compassion and perceived stress in IAPT therapists.
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT ) therapists form a relatively new workforce delivering psychological interventions to people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties in often high-volume environments (Department of Health [DOH], 2008c). Emerging research has suggested …
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Assessing risk within primary care: Logics, contingencies, histories
… 1980s, growing during the 1990s and continuing to accelerate. This has extended to the arena of mental health care where there is an expectation for services to assess and manage risks, and high quality clinical assessment has been re-described to incorporate risk assessment. This expectation …
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Exploring clients’ and therapists’ experiences of compassion focused therapy in fostering post-traumatic growth
… trauma-based literature, research has started to highlight how some individuals may experience positive, life-changing responses following traumatic life events which have been described as post-traumatic growth (PTG). Research has started to focus on the role of trauma-based psychotherapy …
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Ideology and Politics in the Struggle to Regulate the Talking Therapies: The rise and fall of the HPC plans, 2006-2011
… of the 2006-2011 struggle over plans to make the Health Professions Council (HPC) statutory regulator of the field of counselling and psychotherapy in the UK. I contextualise the plans in relation to the Government’s parallel Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme …
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Improving access to psychological therapy for people with learning disabilities from services users' and clinicians' perspectives: An action research approach
… Despite legislation commanding equitable access to all mainstream services, reports continue to question Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) accessibility for people with learning disabilities (LD). Related research typically excludes service-users with LD perspectives’ and …
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Personalised treatments in CBT and the therapeutic alliance in IAPT
… study used a sequential mixed methods analysis to investigate the importance of the Therapeutic Alliance (TA) in an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service. The first part of this study used thematic analysis to analyse data collected from two focus groups, one containing …
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Psychotherapy with people with Asperger Syndrome; exploring ways to improve client and therapist well-being
… people with Asperger Syndrome show a propensity to mental health problems (e.g. Tantam, 1988); one contributor possibly being difficulties with social interaction (Frith, 2004). People with Asperger Syndrome and mental health problems may therefore require support, one form being psychotherapy …
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A Phenomenological Study into British Sign Language Users’ Experiences of Psychological Therapies
… health care that caters for the moderate to severe spectrum of mental health issues with little provision from primary care such as psychological therapies. Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) was launched in 2008 and found not to be accessible for Deaf people; this resulted …
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Scientific Persuasions: ethnographic reflections on evidence-based psychological therapy
This thesis seeks to encourage an anthropology of psychology through an ethnographic account of evidence-based psychological therapy in the United Kingdom. It examines the ‘Improving Access to Psychological Therapies’ (IAPT) service established in 2008 as part of the National Health Service (NHS) …