...Donna-Maria Bradshaw Maynard Purpose The English-speaking Caribbean is currently at a crossroads regarding the education and training of home-grown psychologists meeting the ever-increasing demands for mental health care in the region. This paper recommends an innovative approach to build capacity...

...Andrew Newman Purpose The number of mental health professionals able to prescribe has, for a number of years, reached beyond medics, but UK clinical psychologists are not yet permitted to train to prescribe. The purpose of this paper is to ask if prescribing could be part of the clinical...

...Tony Lavender This paper provides a review of the impact of three of the six work streams from the New Ways of Working for Applied Psychologists. The organisational change model of Beckhard and Harris (1989) is used to evaluate why the recommendations of the reports are being adopted at different...

... staff in psychological therapies and the challenges implicit in devising a workforce delivery plan to support the IAPT programme. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 IAPT programme Psychological therapies Psychotherapy Psychologists CBT Mental health workforce Anxiety Depression...