It is not at all easy to put your head above the parapet and question the modus operandi of NHS Talking Therapies. Many fear it is the pathway to professional suicide. But the adage that ‘all that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men remain silent’ has been very apt over the past 15 years. Discussion on NHS Talking Therapies is prevented in BABCP (see’ Vanquished by BABCP Presidents’ http://www.cbtwatch.com/iapt-the-myth-and-the-reality-vanquished-by-babcp-presidents/ ) and recently the Editor of the Psychologist (https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/weve-never-been-more-fertile-environment-psychological-approaches-expand-and-take-root) in an interview with Dr Whittington, totally failed to challenge the basis of the latter’s mission to expand the reach of the Service. A petition is a necessary voice of protest.
NHS TALKING THERAPIES PETITION
We are calling for:
- A thorough independent review and audit of the NHS Talking Therapies
- A diversity of talking therapies, including relational therapies, to be made available
- A genuine response to community need
- Improvement in staff pay and conditions
SIGN AND SHARE NOW:
NHS Talking Therapies Petition
One Size Does Not Fit All; Independent Review for NHS Talking Therapies Needed Now
We’re calling on Maria Caulfield Minister of State for Mental Health to urgently and independently review the provision of Community Mental Health Care via NHS Talking Therapies (NHS TT – formerly known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, or IAPT).
We believe that while more and more people are suffering from common mental health distress, the availability and accessibility of therapeutic help via the NHS Talking Therapies has become severely limited, indeed a denial of care. NHS TT claim to provide a successful adult mental health service but this is based on their own statistical data which is presented in a misleading way. Neither IAPT nor NHS TT has been subjected to independent audit. An independent review is now crucial to enable a change towards the provision of a service which can genuinely and flexibly respond to the psychological and emotional needs of our communities and support staff in their pay and conditions.
What is wrong with NHS Talking Therapies?
- Restricted choice of therapy options, frequently limited to CBT, web based self- help therapy or non-relational therapies using scripts
- An exceptionally high drop-out rate; only one third of people finish treatment
- Misleading use of data to claim a 50% recovery rate
- Misleading use of data to claim 90% of people referred are seen within 6 weeks
- Very low follow up rate so no evidence of therapeutic benefit over time
- Many therapists are working for low pay, long hours, in gig-economy contracts. Stress and burn out are very common due to pressure to produce ‘results’
- Thousands of trained psychotherapists and counsellors are available but not employed in NHS Talking Therapies
- A highly medical and individualised model, with little recognition of the social causes of mental health distress
- Not cost effective, private companies providing ‘care’ for profit
- More a denial of care than care responding to people’s needs
- Fails to address inequality in mental health care
- Little hope of providing ‘integrated care in local communities for people suffering severe and common mental health difficulties ‘ as promised in the NHS’s Community Mental Health Framework for Adults and Older Adults (2019-21)
- An ideological project adapted to utilitarian and managerial values
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One reply on “Petition for a Review of NHS Talking Therapies”
Add to the list of why this therapy CBT etc does not work . Does not consider or make any adjustment/ accommodations or understand Autism meltdown for neuro developmental/ divergent ADHD adult diagnosed who had 0 support life long and are traumatised by misdiagnosis and coldfaced invalidating degrading inhumane infantalising gaslighting treatment. These staff do not understand autism and are more offended by a F word in melt down than the fact it has lead me to several suicide attempts. Charities is the same. I want my day in court for what MH services does to working class undiagnosed unsupported adhd and Autistics woman and a full written apology , similarity social services 1 in 10 autistics commit suicide because we are discriminated on by the medical model services for our actual disability. That mh services failed to help us with in my case 51 years. This government and the bullying practitioners enabling this treatment need a trip to The Hague frankly you are not equipped or trained in diagnosing neurodivergent people or in treating adult diagnosed, we are not children and we come with CPTSD because your services talking therapies cahm the charities gaslight bully and treat us as a problem and drive us to suicide instead of treating us as intelligent human beings. Respect and understanding of Autistic meltdown from adults who have no coping methods and CBT bullying and gaslighting for our actual neurodivergence and adhd ( we can’t shut our brains down in meditation) it is failing us. Trust me I’m in the autistics groups and there are many of us. MH services are the ones with repetitive behaviours not us. We’re fighting for our lives and trapped in fight and flight on so many levels in this society. And I have physical disability too. Too many narcissist in the mh profession and social services in it to hold power over others stop it. Earn your respect.