Hi Lauren, fascinating post! I liked the section about possible interventions; I learned a lot (having no background in this area) and thought it was well summarised.
I would be particularly interested to see more research on training facilitators for therapy; there is a fairly limited supply of trained psychologists to conduct interventions; I really only think this has legs if it’s fairly easy to train people to teach CBT.
From my work looking into non-specialist delivered psychotherapy, it seems that it’s pretty easy to train people to provide psychotherapy for depression without a considerable loss in efficacy. This means it seems pretty worthwhile in terms of cost-effectiveness to shift delivery to non-specialists. Since this appears to be the case for depression, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t the case for CBT to reduce violent behaviour in particular.
Hi Lauren, fascinating post! I liked the section about possible interventions; I learned a lot (having no background in this area) and thought it was well summarised.
From my work looking into non-specialist delivered psychotherapy, it seems that it’s pretty easy to train people to provide psychotherapy for depression without a considerable loss in efficacy. This means it seems pretty worthwhile in terms of cost-effectiveness to shift delivery to non-specialists. Since this appears to be the case for depression, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t the case for CBT to reduce violent behaviour in particular.