CBT Web Links
The CBT model: key articles and reviews
BABCP Guide to Understanding CBT
What is CBT – Royal College of Psychiatrists Factsheet
The Evidence base for CBT
- General navigation page for NICE reviews
- Completed NICE reviews relevant to CBT:
Computerised CBT for depression and anxiety
Schizophrenia
Eating Disorders
Self-harm
Anxiety
Depression - Draft NICE Guidelines in development
Bipolar disorder
Depression in children
Dementia
Disturbed (violent) behaviour
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
PTSD - NIMHE Reviews: CBT Self-Help Interventions for Mental Health Problems
- The Cochrane Collaboration The reliable source of evidence in health care
Free online CBT resources
A BABCP review of free computerised and online CBT packages
BABCP Review
Mood Gym: information, quizzes, games and skills training to help prevent depression
http://moodgym.anu.edu.au/
Living Life the the Full: free online life skills course for people feeling distressed and their carers. Helps you understand why to feel as you do and make changes in your thinking, activities, sleep and relationships
www.livinglifetothefull.com
Mental Health Charities
Depression and Bipolar Support Association
Eating Disorders Association (EDA)
Pendulum Resources - Bipolar Disorders
Suicide Awareness/Voice of Education (SA/VE)
Finding a Therapist
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy is available in the UK from the NHS and private sector. Therapists can be from a variety of professional backgrounds e.g. nursing, psychology, psychiatry.
There are a number of ways to find a therapist. These include referral from a GP, contacting your local mental health service, local health authority or primary care trust. Alternatively the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies BABCP - have an online list of accredited therapists or the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy UKCP. You may also find a therapist in your local yellow pages www.yell.com.
A online directory,which lists approved and qualified cognitive behavioural psychotherapists, is also published by the BABCP.