There is growing evidence showing that self-help reading can help people with certain mental health conditions get better.
Reading Well: Books on Prescription will enable GPs and mental health professionals to prescribe patients cognitive behavioural therapy through a visit to the library. Here they can get books to help them understand and manage conditions from depression to chronic pain. The scheme works within NICE guidelines, and uses 30 books endorsed by health partners as having evidenced CBT benefits.
The scheme has the backing of the Royal Colleges of GPs, Nursing and Psychiatrists, the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and of the Department of Health through its Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme.
User and Prescriber leaflets are available in the related downloads section.
For more information contact your local library.
“My doctor prescribed me a book on helping me overcome my OCD. It has really helped alongside my therapy and medication.”
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