New Nice depression guidelines: counselling no longer first chioce

By Simeon Brody, community editor, on October 28, 2009 12:56 PM | 3 Comments

New NICE guidelines on the treatment of depression in the UK appear to have downgraded the use of counselling as a response, in favour of other treatments such as cognitive behavioural therapy.

I'd be interested to hear what people think of this or any other thoughts you might have about the new guidance. (Beware it's over 500 pages!)

3 Comments

Anonymous | October 29, 2009 2:04 PM | Reply

Isn't CBT a form of (goal-focused) counselling?

Simeon Brody, community editor, replied to comment from Anonymous | October 29, 2009 3:11 PM | Reply

Yes, you're right - counselling is a bit of a catch-all term. I imagine what they are referring to is non goal-focused types of therapy

Herman | November 2, 2009 11:48 PM | Reply

Shame that only CBT is recommended. This is not what one could call "patient choice".
http://www.interpersonaltherapy.net/

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