Citation

Atkinson P. Self Soc. 2014; 42(1-2): 18-19.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, ©2018 - The Author/AHP, Publisher Association for Humanistic Psychology)

DOI

10.1080/03060497.2014.11084402

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is in the final year of its four-year programme to treat 3.2 million people for depression and anxiety. While evidence has been accumulating of the programme's failures and shortcomings, the latest Department of Health report on IAPT's outcomes declares it a resounding success--and it has the numbers to prove it. Or does it?