Evidence-based psychological therapies: from bench to bedside

Shafran, R., Gyani, A. and Lee, M. (2011) Evidence-based psychological therapies: from bench to bedside. British Journal of Wellbeing, 2 (6). pp. 32-37. ISSN 2043-9393

Abstract/Summary

Patients with mental health difficulties do not always receive appropriate and recommended psychological treatment for their difficulties, and clinicians are not always appropriately trained to deliver them. This paper considers why this might be the case and provides an overview of the Charlie Waller Institute, a not-for-profit organisation funded by the NHS, University of Reading, and the Charlie Waller Memorial Trust. The Institute seeks to address this problem by training clinicians in wide variety of evidence-based therapies and assessing the impact of this training on clinician knowledge and skill.