1.3.4 Low Intensity-CBT (Li-CBT) guided self-help “With the increased prevalence of depression around the world, there is a growing need for assessing effective therapeutic interventions that are cost-effective, time limited interventions, to help improve outcomes and to be used as preventive measures as well. The Increasing Access to Psychological Services (IAPT) programme in England was developed in 2006 to test the effectiveness of providing significant increases in evidence-based psychological therapy services to people with the common mental health problems of depression and anxiety disorders (Juice, 2011). Being a new protocol of intervention for mild and moderate depression, there is few literatures referring to Li-CBT guided self-help …show more content…
Li-CBT guided self-help have been mainly developed in the context of clients with mild to moderate psychological disorders (Bennett, 2010). Li-CBT guided self-help has a theoretical and conceptual link to CBT and has been embedded in service provision as a way of providing access to psychological treatments for people diagnosed with mild to moderate anxiety and depressive disorder in the UK (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (UK), 2011; Barton et al, 2014). It consists of specific clinical procedures such as BA, CR, MS, exposure therapy, problem solving, managing panic and SL. Li-CBT guided self-help is known as a guided CBT: during therapy, the therapist is guiding clients through a succession of adopting new skills. In contrast, CBT based self-help without minimal support leaves the client to master these skills and be able to apply them independently (Joyce, …show more content…
There is inadequate evidence to determine the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Li-CBT guided self-help interventions for the prevention of relapse or recurrence of depression (Rodgers et al, 2012). In a systematic review of the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of low intensity interventions to prevent relapse or recurrence in clients with depression, results reported differing degrees of efficacy for the evaluated interventions and that there was also no difference between clients receiving the intervention and those receiving usual care in terms of relapse of depression over 12 months (Rodgers et al, 2012). The researcher aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Li-CBT guided self-help as it is shown according to the studies in UK that it created a major shift on the mental health services provided and incredibly increased the access to the psychological services and provided the evidenced based CBT to a wide range of the UK population in a very few years of application. Application of such a therapeutic protocol on Arabic speaking population may yield similar results which can help boost mental health services in Arabic