IAPT have a target of 50% recovery rate (which seems quite low), but does that mean those who do not receive a psychological intervention have lower rates of recovery? Is there any data available on this issue in a report or journal?
Many thanks
Dear Dave,
Why give therapy if the patients would recover anyway. This paper sheds some light on your question:
Behav Res Ther. 2013 Sep; 51(9): 597–606.
Enhancing recovery rates: Lessons from year one of IAPT
Alex Gyani, Roz Shafran, Richard Layard, and David M. Clark
Dear Dave
Though my response is not directly in response to your question, because where I come from such services are unavailable, my response is my own recovery. So if you can please take a look at some of my writing, it will tell you that only after giving up psychiatric medication (on which I was dependent for 18 years), I recovered. Kindly take a look at the newest article- Musical Progressions too.
50% recovery over what period of time? Not sure about general psychiatric populations, but certainly in those with acute (and chronic) physical health problems, such as cancer, spontaneous recovery rates over one year are higher than 50%.
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