Beating the Blues®
Stepped Care Approach to Treating Depression
In December 2004 NICE published guidance on the treatment of people with depression. The NICE clinical guideline on depression covers:
- The care people with depression can expect to receive from their GP or other healthcare professionals, whether they receive treatment in or out of hospital.
- The information they can expect to receive about their problem and its treatment
- What they can expect from treatment, including psychological therapies, drug treatment and electroconvulsive therapy.
- The kind of services that help people with depression, including your GP, specialist mental health services and hospital care.
This guidance indicated that CBT was the most evidence based approach to the treatment of Depression and that Computerised CBT was likely to be of benefit as a way of providing access to psychological therapies.
Beating the Blues® is the only computerised CBT programme recommended by NICE for mild and moderate depression.
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