Evidence For CBT

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on promoting good health and preventing and treating ill health.

NICE produces guidance in three areas of health: public health - guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention of ill health for those working in the NHS, local authorities and the wider public and voluntary sector health technologies - guidance on the use of new and existing medicines, treatments and procedures within the NHS clinical practice - guidance on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions within the NHS.

The following NICE Guidelines (PDF) support CBT as an effective therapy.

Anxiety
Depression
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Other topics are available from the NICE web site

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Newspaper Articles

Drugs 'R' us
by John Cornwell

Depression is a growing problem in children - and it is now legal for British doctors to give Prozac to eight-year-olds. So will more parents be tempted to use pills to make their children happy?
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Success: it's a brain of two halves
by John-Paul Flintoff and John Elliott
The Sunday Times March 12, 2006

KNOWLEDGE is no longer power. A self-help book has become an unexpected hit with the prediction that success in the 21st century will depend on the ability to tear up the rules and think laterally
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Rebuilding the walls of confidence
by Jane Wheatley
The Times July 17, 2006

Cognitive behavioural therapy is the Next Big Thing, but who loses out?
On a fine summer morning, a young man walks across the lawns of his university campus, up to the doors of a lecture theatre. There, he hesitates, then turns, head down, hurrying away against the flow of students, back to his room where he can be alone. Later that week, he sits miserably in front of a kindly looking woman: he always means to go to lectures, he tells her; he often gets as far as the doors but chickens out at the last moment
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50,000 children taking antidepressants
by Sarah Boseley, health editor
The Guardian Saturday September 20, 2003

An antidepressant which GPs have been prescribing to thousands of children, in spite of the fact that it is not recommended for their use, can cause youngsters to want to kill themselves, the government's regulatory agency warned yesterday
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