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Clydebank
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based treatment approach that
is widely recommended for problems such as low mood/depression, anxiety, worry
and panic, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bulimia and more.
However access to such resources is often limited, and even with major
investment in service redesign to increase access to psychological therapies,
there remains a pressure on services to offer effective treatments to larger
numbers of people. CBT can be offered in different ways including face to face
delivery by an expert, however in many settings this is associated with waiting
lists and high service delivery costs. National treatment guidelines recommend
additional ways of delivering the CBT model. These include:
