The UK Government will announce plans this week to introduce counselling care of the job centre in an attempt to get people back to work, reports The Guardian (4 December 2009).
With six million adults in the UK suffering from depression and anxiety, the initiative will use therapy (predominantly CBT) to get people off incapacity benefit and back into paid employment.
Those referred to CBT clinics will receive eight sessions. Approximately 40% of long-term sickness benefit are diagnosed with depression.
For more stories about counselling, psychotherapy and mental health, please visit TherapyMe.com and click on In the News.
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