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I followed some of Mike's links in his IAPT section: http://www.cbtwatch.com/category/iapt/ I found this LSE report, which forms part of the...
Yes, it was almost as if he was promoting the need for an expansion of IAPT, since IAPT is the only way left for patients in England with...
Well, the tobacco industry were finally exposed!
But even bracketing (leaving aside) the debate on mind, brain and body, we can make a useful distinction between a 'mental problem' and a 'mental...
IAPT is both NHS England's and the DWP's 'baby'. It will take a lot of work to publically expose the problems inherent in the IAPT model. In the...
Mike has written about this on his website (as a comment response): http://www.cbtwatch.com/bbc-investigates-the-therapy-business/#comments
But what evidence does the 'GET/CBT premise' actually have? The deconditioning theory is just that, an unevidenced theory. That has been...
I was actually using autism as an example of nosological classification and diagnostic difficulties, not to imply the the condition itself has...
But that is because those promoting CBT/GET for CFS/ME have ignored the actual clinical presentation of ME (or CFS/ME), ignored the post exetional...
Well, there are plenty in the autistic community who do make the argument against the effectiveness of behavioural interventions for a...
I dont think that is true. For example, currently autism is diagnosed based on symtoms and clinical judgment only - there is not a reliable...
Yes. There is plenty of proof in the clinical presentation itself, as well as the trajectory of the disease. Patients have had decades of...
I'm autistic - pretty much everything I write is a generic response to what I read, and usually my posts are just factual! I tend to quote bits of...
He's probably hoping for an 'award for bravery to medical services in the face of patient hostility' type award in the future...
It's noticable that he used the Oxford criteria for selection of patients. With the expansion of IAPT and the fact that it seems beloved by all...
I have never been referred for CBT or GET in relation to my ME, so I had to use the comments box to describe the harmful effects of what the...
Sorry, didn't mean it to sound like a personal reply, I was just writing generically.
I found the web page that shows the history of the Department of Work and Pensions' development of this idea, with all the relevant links to their...
Unfortunately my council landlord is terrible - they treat their tenants like second class citizens, it would have been easier for me to get the...
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