Day 56: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies

We provide Talking Therapies Services called IAPT in two parts of England.  One service is a fully integrated ‘wellbeing’ service, catering for mental and physical health and wellbeing.

I learnt more today about how we provide these services, seek to improve them and the impact that pandemic has had.  This has caused people to have a greater need for support, to engage with services at a later stage and has increased the difficulty in recruiting staff.

I am still in awe every day of the wonderful jobs my colleagues are doing to serve the people we support, despite these challenges!

Day 42: Psychology

So much of what we do at Turning Point is underpinned by evidence-based psychological interventions.  It is vital that how we work with the people we support to achieve their potential is rooted in good quality, evidence-based, therapies and services.

We have a central team of Psychologists as well as many spread throughout our services.  One of the fantastic things that I heard about on one of my recent virtual service visits is the way our Psychologists work hand in glove with Peer Support Workers.  This ensures that the people we support get a combination of evidence-based and experience-based therapy.