Year: 2010
Type: book
Abstract: This guide was produced following an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Conference held at the Queens Hotel in Leeds in February 2009.The conference had been organised in response to feedback from services and those attending training courses expressing a need for expert guidance on the use of self-help materials given the wide range of different materials and media all purporting to offer helpful advice and information to people about a range of problems and disorders.A conference was organised with expert researchers and practitioners who had experience of developing self-help materials in order to discuss whether guidance should be forthcoming and in which form it should take.Rather than endorsing particular self-help materials that are available, the conference focused on attempting to derive a set of criteria by which both practitioners and people might be able to assess the utility and effectiveness of particular materials.It was agreed that these principles might provide the basis for a 'Good Practice Guide' about how to choose and use self-help materials.This guide has been written by the contributors to the conference (listed in Annex 1).Presentations from the conference are also available on the IAPT website (www.iapt.nhs.uk).
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W173036465