Five Areas

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based treatment approach that is widely recommended for problems such as low mood/depression, anxiety, worry and panic, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bulimia and more. However access to such resources is often limited, and even with major investment in service redesign to increase access to psychological therapies, there remains a pressure on services to offer effective treatments to larger numbers of people. CBT can be offered in different ways including face to face delivery by an expert, however in many settings this is associated with waiting lists and high service delivery costs. National treatment guidelines recommend additional ways of delivering the CBT model. These include: