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Dr Sandy Richards’ comments regarding your biased editorial position towards CBT (Letters, Therapy Today, December 2008) mirrors exactly my opinion.
Editorial bias against CBT
Dr Sandy Richards’ comments regarding your biased editorial position towards CBT (Letters, Therapy Today, December 2008) mirrors exactly my opinion. Originally trained in psychodynamic counselling, I am an accredited counsellor with BACP, but not for much longer. Having retrained as a CBT therapist and being accredited to deliver CBT, I was prepared for some spears to be thrown, but as Dr Richards states, the constant carping and trying to talk up the research for other counselling models, whilst denigrating CBT at every opportunity, does this journal and BACP no credit.
When my PCT was developing its IAPT model I was keen to champion the need for choice of counselling models, but not any more. I see IAPT trainees (some counsellors from other models as well as health professionals) enjoying positive and measured results with patients, and patients truly surprised at the speed at which they are seen and the results that they themselves can achieve with positive collaboration and a therapy with good generic models which can be specifically applied. You would never guess this from your articles on IAPT and CBT over the previous year.
With only 6,000 accredited members and 24,000 other members, BACP has reason to worry about IAPT using CBT successfully and regulation coming up fast. BACP needs friends in IAPT and the NHS at ground level. This is not the way to influence that opinion or gain support where you need it – at the grassroots delivery.CBT psychotherapist, IAPT, NHS
