Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Happiness is a hot topic

The Richard Layard Happiness agenda is back in the papers since a number of mental health charities have decided to back his plan. In this article, a psychtherapist, Derek Draper, discusses cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and worries about the impact on other forms of therapy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1935497,00.html

Re: disrealian,
I assume that when Draper talks about CBT+, he is nor referring to some derivative or advancment of CBT, but instead means that initially patients should be treated with CBT, and if this is unsucessful then they should receive some other form of therapy instead, such as psychodynamic or pure cognitive (the + part). As Draper hints at, CBT is most effective at helping people with easily-defined problems such as phobias or compulsive-obsessive disorders, whereas psychodynamic appears better for delving a bit deeper into the psyche.

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