Reform the NICE guidelines and end the bias towards Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) in the IAPT programme
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ISAAC PIZER
11 years ago
I am a registered member of UKCP
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Peter Ryan
11 years ago
Having counselled (over 6 years post-qualification face-to-face therapeutic experiences) many ex-nhs/cbt casualties both in private and free practice I feel my take on this selfish, uncaring, soullessly mathematically manufactured driven tripe called cbt might prove informative.
My understanding of this insurance/evidence based thinking therapy is that its success seems to be obtained first and foremost by, a) hitching its logical wagon to ‘left-brain’ science, b) access to a spurious instruction booklet (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which by the way, has no statistics in it!), to denote an air of expertise, c) a carefully selected process of eliminating independent minded individuals, d) obtaining 100% commitment from the ‘desperate’, before any treatment begins, usually after waiting for a period of 12 mths, e) accredited personal are mostly deployed when success of clinical trails are to be paraded for public consumption, and f) use of psychiatric medication, (its more, evil-twin), not discouraged when implementation of its one size fits all agenda. Other therapies of a more relationship building frame of mind, such as, psychodynamic and person-centred organismic psychology find it challenging when forced to compete against the above strategy that is devoid of all human feeling and emotional contact.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
As a recently qualified counselling practitioner, childhood sexual abuse survivor and PTSD sufferer, my experience with NHS therapy was wholly inadequate and damaging - the CBT therapist essentially blamed me instead of my abuser.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
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I am a trainee counsellor. I am also a survivor of complex trauma who was unable to access the therapy I needed on the NHS because I could only access CBT. The NHS is failing the many people in the UK who need talk therapy and it is high time the bias towards CBT ended.
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nicholas mccreath - adams
11 years ago
I have social anxiety and the CBT approach has failed me utterly. One counsellor/ mental health advisor at a UK government sponsored employment agency used it in such a rude and aggressive manner that I had a major stress reaction, for which I am still, over a year later, taking sedatives. CBT is absolute rubbish and those who use it to the exclusion of all else are narrow minded fools.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
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The tick box questionnaires are a blunt tool for assessing very real emotional problems.
It is a treatment which is entirely inappropriate for many people and it's a waste of money to foist it onto everyone regardless of their individual needs.
In addition the counsellors often appear inexperienced and non empathetic.
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steve baker
12 years ago
MBACP (Accred)
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steve hawkins
12 years ago
Why does a purely opinion-based profession enjoy such undeserved power and influence?
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Madeleine Loughlin
12 years ago
UKCP Psychotherapist
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Shirlie Higham-Crowe
12 years ago
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I fully support this petition, as a qualified Arts Therapist who is unable to find employment within the NHS, I feel that the focus on CBT has been misguided from its inception, and has played a part in the decline of my Profession within the NHS. It is also putting Patient's at a great disadvantage because one size fits all is not a productive way to provide Therapy Services.
I am a registered member of UKCP
Having counselled (over 6 years post-qualification face-to-face therapeutic experiences) many ex-nhs/cbt casualties both in private and free practice I feel my take on this selfish, uncaring, soullessly mathematically manufactured driven tripe called cbt might prove informative. My understanding of this insurance/evidence based thinking therapy is that its success seems to be obtained first and foremost by, a) hitching its logical wagon to ‘left-brain’ science, b) access to a spurious instruction booklet (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which by the way, has no statistics in it!), to denote an air of expertise, c) a carefully selected process of eliminating independent minded individuals, d) obtaining 100% commitment from the ‘desperate’, before any treatment begins, usually after waiting for a period of 12 mths, e) accredited personal are mostly deployed when success of clinical trails are to be paraded for public consumption, and f) use of psychiatric medication, (its more, evil-twin), not discouraged when implementation of its one size fits all agenda. Other therapies of a more relationship building frame of mind, such as, psychodynamic and person-centred organismic psychology find it challenging when forced to compete against the above strategy that is devoid of all human feeling and emotional contact.
As a recently qualified counselling practitioner, childhood sexual abuse survivor and PTSD sufferer, my experience with NHS therapy was wholly inadequate and damaging - the CBT therapist essentially blamed me instead of my abuser.
I am a trainee counsellor. I am also a survivor of complex trauma who was unable to access the therapy I needed on the NHS because I could only access CBT. The NHS is failing the many people in the UK who need talk therapy and it is high time the bias towards CBT ended.
I have social anxiety and the CBT approach has failed me utterly. One counsellor/ mental health advisor at a UK government sponsored employment agency used it in such a rude and aggressive manner that I had a major stress reaction, for which I am still, over a year later, taking sedatives. CBT is absolute rubbish and those who use it to the exclusion of all else are narrow minded fools.
The tick box questionnaires are a blunt tool for assessing very real emotional problems. It is a treatment which is entirely inappropriate for many people and it's a waste of money to foist it onto everyone regardless of their individual needs. In addition the counsellors often appear inexperienced and non empathetic.
MBACP (Accred)
Why does a purely opinion-based profession enjoy such undeserved power and influence?
UKCP Psychotherapist
I fully support this petition, as a qualified Arts Therapist who is unable to find employment within the NHS, I feel that the focus on CBT has been misguided from its inception, and has played a part in the decline of my Profession within the NHS. It is also putting Patient's at a great disadvantage because one size fits all is not a productive way to provide Therapy Services.