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Brief Mental Health Interventions in Primary Care.
This page was used during the project to provide practitioners with an alternative way of accessing forms, newsletters, and workshop material. We have maintained the page for archival purposes, and in case anyone is interested in the documentation.
The main purpose of the research was to establish whether clinically and personally relevant change can be facilitated via brief mental health interventions delivered within the primary care setting.
This was assessed through analysis of change as measured on a range of clinical and personal indicators. Our hypothesis was that in general brief mental health interventions could assist in reducing psychological distress and problem presentation, and that these would be maintained at 3 and 6-month follow-up.
We did not expect the relationship between “caseness”, presenting problems and counselling outcomes to be simple and linear. We anticipated that a number of factors such as therapist training and experience, the match between therapist and patient/presenting problem, patient’s perception of their difficulties, etc. would all mediate a main effect.
Click here for a general summary of the research project goals and design.
Who was on the TPC team working this project? Click here
The research programme was reviewed and approved by the Northern-Y Regional Ethics Committee.
Forms
Counselling and therapy practitioners providing the therapy services were required to fill in various tracking records about their clients. These could be downloaded here.
Counsellor/Therapist Reporting Template
Therapist Intervention Summary Form
Participant Information Sheet (v.2)
Participant Consent Form (v.2)
Rating Scales
Clients/research participants were asked to complete some rating scales to help us both describe/evaluate the project and draw some conclusions about clinical efficacy. Some of the forms that we will be using are available here. Others are not available due to copyright restrictions. If a form that you need is here please print it off and use it. These scales have been copyrighted by The Psychology Centre and are free for use in connection with this project.
Session Rating Form (v.1)
Client Satisfaction Survey (v1.1)
Client Satisfaction Survey – child clients (v1.1)
Newsletters
We produced regular newsletters/updates about the project. You can also access these here.
Prime:Psych #1 (July 2006)
Prime:Psych #2 (August 2006)
Prime:Psych #3 (October 2006)
Prime:Psych #4 (November 2006)
Prime:Psych #5 (February 2007)
Workshops
We ran two workshops for counsellors/psychologists and GPs over the course of this project. The materials related to each of the workshops are posted here for those who were unable to attend, or just want to have a digital copy.
Workshop #1: Introductions (4 October, 2006)
Manual
PowerPoint slides (.pdf handouts):
Workshop #2: Update and Brief Therapy (6 December 2006)
Manual
PowerPoint slides (.pdf handouts)