A project on Merseyside has pioneered bibliotherapy as a treatment for people with acute depression and anxiety. The service, 'Get into reading', is delivered by the charity Reader Organisation. The article reports on how the service works.
A project on Merseyside has pioneered bibliotherapy as a treatment for people with acute depression and anxiety. The service, 'Get into reading', is delivered by the charity Reader Organisation. The article reports on how the service works.
Subject terms:
therapies, therapy and treatment, anxiety, depression;
People with learning disabilities can experience worry and apprehension before hospital appointments. The Royal Derby Hospital, part of the Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has developed a series of short films which are helping to reduce hospital anxiety for patients with learning disabilities. The films act as a visual guide for patients attending and include: the main entrance
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People with learning disabilities can experience worry and apprehension before hospital appointments. The Royal Derby Hospital, part of the Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has developed a series of short films which are helping to reduce hospital anxiety for patients with learning disabilities. The films act as a visual guide for patients attending and include: the main entrance and getting to the right department; the emergency department and what to expect; having an X-ray; having a CT scan; having a blood test and admission to a hospital ward. This article looks at the positive impact the films have had for people with learning disabilities and staff, and the plans for the future.
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British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Students often suffer from performance anxiety and exam stress. This article describes how mindfulness training has been used to help young people cope with competitive pressures at a high-ranking music college. The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) is a prestigious music and drama college with approximately 700 students. The courses all work towards a performance in some shape or form, and performance anxiety is one of the challenges the students face. An 8-week course for performance anxiety and stress adapted from mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has been developed and taught at RWCMD. The programme focuses specifically on anxiety and stress in performance and test situations. The experiential skills-based sessions last 1.5 hours and teach mindfulness practices
Students often suffer from performance anxiety and exam stress. This article describes how mindfulness training has been used to help young people cope with competitive pressures at a high-ranking music college. The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) is a prestigious music and drama college with approximately 700 students. The courses all work towards a performance in some shape or form, and performance anxiety is one of the challenges the students face. An 8-week course for performance anxiety and stress adapted from mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) has been developed and taught at RWCMD. The programme focuses specifically on anxiety and stress in performance and test situations. The experiential skills-based sessions last 1.5 hours and teach mindfulness practices such as focusing on the breath, mindful movement, and use of 3-minute breathing pauses, as well as informal mindfulness exercises such as practising mindful awareness of regular daily activities. Student responses to the course have been very positive.
Good Autism Practice, 9(2), October 2008, pp.9-14.
Publisher:
British Institute of Learning Disabilities
This article describes the delivery of an anxiety management programme using cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) with a group of adults with Asperger syndrome who access an outreach service. An outline of the model used by the group facilitators is provided and data given on the views of the adults with Aspergers syndrome and the facilitators on the value of this approach.
This article describes the delivery of an anxiety management programme using cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) with a group of adults with Asperger syndrome who access an outreach service. An outline of the model used by the group facilitators is provided and data given on the views of the adults with Aspergers syndrome and the facilitators on the value of this approach.
Subject terms:
Aspergers syndrome, anxiety, behaviour therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, group therapy;
British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 36(4), December 2008, pp.242-248.
Publisher:
Wiley
Very little work has been done to investigate effective non-medical approaches for supporting people with a learning disability and dental anxiety to access dental care. Using a case study, this paper demonstrates that a simple cognitive behavioural intervention can be effective in reducing dental anxiety, and offer a more meaningful choice of treatment options. This paper is limited
Very little work has been done to investigate effective non-medical approaches for supporting people with a learning disability and dental anxiety to access dental care. Using a case study, this paper demonstrates that a simple cognitive behavioural intervention can be effective in reducing dental anxiety, and offer a more meaningful choice of treatment options. This paper is limited in that no formal assessment measures were used, and was evaluated through client feedback. It is possible that this intervention could be applied by other practitioners to increase the accessibility of dental health services.
Subject terms:
learning disabilities, access to services, anxiety, behaviour therapy, case studies;
Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 8(1), 2014, pp.51-62.
Publisher:
Emerald
Purpose: There is a move to make primary care models of mental health care more accessible to people with intellectual disabilities (IAPT, 2009) but little evidence of their ability of services to make the necessary reasonable adjustments or their effectiveness (Dodd et al., 2011). The purpose of this paper is to describe a pilot project to evaluate an anxiety management group co-facilitated by Least Intervention First Time (LIFT) Psychology and Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities (CTPLD) services.
Design/methodology/approach: Five people attended a nine-week anxiety management group, adapted from a course offered by LIFT services. The Glasgow Anxiety Scale (GAS-ID) and a skills and knowledge assessment were completed pre-group, post-group and follow-up to evaluate outcome and consider the ability of LIFT to make reasonable adjustments to deliver effective services for people with intellectual disabilities.
Findings:Participants showed no significant reduction in anxiety levels but improvements in their skills and knowledge. An evaluation of the adjustments to make the group accessible for people with intellectual disabilities identified that some were feasible if offering
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Purpose: There is a move to make primary care models of mental health care more accessible to people with intellectual disabilities (IAPT, 2009) but little evidence of their ability of services to make the necessary reasonable adjustments or their effectiveness (Dodd et al., 2011). The purpose of this paper is to describe a pilot project to evaluate an anxiety management group co-facilitated by Least Intervention First Time (LIFT) Psychology and Community Team for People with Learning Disabilities (CTPLD) services.
Design/methodology/approach: Five people attended a nine-week anxiety management group, adapted from a course offered by LIFT services. The Glasgow Anxiety Scale (GAS-ID) and a skills and knowledge assessment were completed pre-group, post-group and follow-up to evaluate outcome and consider the ability of LIFT to make reasonable adjustments to deliver effective services for people with intellectual disabilities.
Findings:Participants showed no significant reduction in anxiety levels but improvements in their skills and knowledge. An evaluation of the adjustments to make the group accessible for people with intellectual disabilities identified that some were feasible if offering the group on a long-term basis, and others were not. The viability of future groups is considered.
Originality/value: The paper looks at the viability of making reasonable adjustments to psychoeducational groups within Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services to better meet the needs of people with intellectual disabilities, an area of limited research. It raises dilemmas and considerations for the future development of such services.
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Subject terms:
learning disabilities, primary care, anxiety, models, access to services, mental health services, therapies;
Aging and Mental Health, 16(7), September 2012, pp.874-883.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
This article describes the development of the Calmer Life project, a partnership between researchers and faith-based and social service organisations to examine the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) incorporating religious/spiritual components for older African Americans in low-income communities. The programme allowed multimodal delivery that occurred outside traditional mental health settings through faith-based organisations and neighbourhood community centres. Established relationships within the community were built upon, and initial meetings were held in community settings, allowing feedback from community organisations. This ongoing programme has been successfully and strengthened relationships with community partners and facilitated increased availability of education and services in the community. The lessons learned in establishing these partnerships are detailed.
This article describes the development of the Calmer Life project, a partnership between researchers and faith-based and social service organisations to examine the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) incorporating religious/spiritual components for older African Americans in low-income communities. The programme allowed multimodal delivery that occurred outside traditional mental health settings through faith-based organisations and neighbourhood community centres. Established relationships within the community were built upon, and initial meetings were held in community settings, allowing feedback from community organisations. This ongoing programme has been successfully and strengthened relationships with community partners and facilitated increased availability of education and services in the community. The lessons learned in establishing these partnerships are detailed.
Subject terms:
mental health services, older people, social inclusion, ageing, anxiety, communities;
Journal of Public Mental Health, 10(4), 2011, pp.225-233.
Publisher:
Emerald
An attempt to expand the availability of psychological treatments for anxiety and depression is underway. Interventions include supported self-help programs based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) principles such as computerised CBT (CCBT) for mild-to-moderate depression, phobia, and panic. This paper describes innovative third sector, service-user led CCBT clinics commissioned within
An attempt to expand the availability of psychological treatments for anxiety and depression is underway. Interventions include supported self-help programs based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) principles such as computerised CBT (CCBT) for mild-to-moderate depression, phobia, and panic. This paper describes innovative third sector, service-user led CCBT clinics commissioned within Greater Manchester, England. The CCBT clinic achieves a high throughput of service-users, including more than one-third accessing the service through self-referral. Intake and outcome measures suggest that CCBT service users are representative of both the local population and those accessing increasing access to psychological therapies (IAPT) services for common mental health problems. For those engaging with the CCBT service, outcomes are equivalent to those reported in NHS-based services. Service users highly value the service offered including the computer-based programs and the support offered by paid and voluntary staff. This paper describes how the project was initially set up, how the services are managed, how they work, and the impact of these services on the population they serve.
The project TALKadoption, run by the charity After Adoption, brings together young adopted people to share their experiences is finding that anxiety and feelings of isolation are reduced while participants' self-esteem grows. The project is briefly described and one young person talks about the help TALKadoption has given him.
The project TALKadoption, run by the charity After Adoption, brings together young adopted people to share their experiences is finding that anxiety and feelings of isolation are reduced while participants' self-esteem grows. The project is briefly described and one young person talks about the help TALKadoption has given him.
Subject terms:
social isolation, self-esteem, user views, young people, adopted children, anxiety, groupwork;
Former military personnel with mental health issues face the biggest battle of all: coming to terms with their condition. The MoD has teamed up with the NHS to provide six pilot projects which offer community mental health care for veterans. Brief details of the pilots and their services are provided.
Former military personnel with mental health issues face the biggest battle of all: coming to terms with their condition. The MoD has teamed up with the NHS to provide six pilot projects which offer community mental health care for veterans. Brief details of the pilots and their services are provided.
Subject terms:
intervention, mental health problems, stress, aggression, anxiety, armed forces personnel, community mental health services;