Mental disorders such as depression and anxiety are increasingly common.
Yet there are too few specialists to offer help to everyone, and
negative attitudes to psychological problems and their treatment
discourage people from seeking it. As a result, many people never
receive help for these problems.
The Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions marks a turning
point in the delivery of psychological treatments for people with
depression and anxiety. Until recently, the only form of psychological
intervention available for patients with depression and anxiety was
traditional one-to-one 60 minute session therapy - usually with private
practitioners for those patients who could afford it. Now Low Intensity
CBT Interventions are starting to revolutionize mental health care by
providing cost effective psychological therapies which can reach the
vast numbers of people with depression and anxiety who did not
previously have access to effective psychological treatment.
The Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions is the first book
to provide a comprehensive guide to Low Intensity CBT interventions. It
brings together researchers and clinicians from around the world who
have led the way in developing evidence-based low intensity CBT
treatments. It charts the plethora of new ways that evidence-based low
intensity CBT can be delivered: for instance, guided self-help, groups,
advice clinics, brief GP interventions, internet-based or book-based
treatment and prevention programs, with supported provided by phone,
email, internet, sms or face-to-face. These new treatments require new
forms of service delivery, new ways of communicating, new forms of
training and supervision, and the development of new workforces. They
involve changing systems and routine practice, and adapting
interventions to particular community contexts.
The Oxford Guide to Low Intensity CBT Interventions is a
state-of-the-art handbook, providing low intensity practitioners,
supervisors, managers commissioners of services and politicians with a
practical, easy-to-read guide - indispensible reading for those who wish
to understand and anticipate future directions in health service
provision and to broaden access to cost-effective evidence-based
psychological therapies.
