[NYAPRS Enews] Beating the Blues - CBT Platform Diverts Depression and Treatment Access Need

[Briana Gilmore]

NYAPRS Note: Last week at the MCTAC-Open Minds-NYAPRS conference in Saratoga, several discussions revolved around the need for adopting technology that facilitates easy communications in areas where geography, culture, and access present service barriers. 'Beating the Blues' was offered as one such platform: a broadly utilized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy program that is proven to positively effect depression. In several areas, the program is prescribed to people calling for appointments with a therapist to reduce their negative symptoms while they wait for treatment. See the information and links below to learn more, and consider offering this platform to the people you serve.
Beating the Blues(r) is the most widely used and evidence-based online CBT programme for the treatment of depression.
Beating the Blues(r) has been proven to help people suffering with mild and moderate depression to get better and stay better and is based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy <http://www.beatingtheblues.co.nz/what-is-it.html> (CBT).
It is a way of helping people to learn to cope with anxiety and depression and has been recommended for use in the NHS by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
Beating the Blues brings all the benefits of CBT directly to your patients by the use of computer and multi-media technology which means that you can access the treatment when and where you want.
Independent research<http://www.beatingtheblues.co.nz/evidence-practitioners.html> has shown that CCBT works for many people with depression and anxiety by teaching practical, lifelong skills to help them feel better and stay better.
This program was jointly designed and developed by Dr Judy Proudfoot and her team at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London and Ultrasis plc.
http://www.beatingtheblues.co.nz/
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