The Telegraph posted a headline the other day saying:
‘NHS urges nine million people to get therapy.
Health bosses launch mass media campaign amid fears ‘anxiety epidemic’ is fuelling worklessness crisis.’
I mean, where does anyone begin to unpick all that.
But we had all this when Lord Layard, in collaboration with the Blair government, invented IAPT, to get people off benefits and back to work. They made it sound so simple. And yet it didn’t work.
The Midlands Psychology Group was invited to submit a paper for a special issue about IAPT for Clinical Psychology Forum. We wrote two, which can be found on our publications page: Our Big Fat Multi-Million Pound Psychology Experiment and Blissed Out Britain is Back in Business.
For anyone who wants a trip down memory lane, here is the full special issue:
Midlands Psychology Group 