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MKNews | News | Therapy for deaf people in Milton Keynes
The deaf community in will benifit from psychological therapy services comming to Milton Keynes.
SignHealth have been awarded a contract to provide services to the South Central region of England.
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a government initiative aimed at improving emotional and psychological well-being, and getting people into work or back into work through a stepped care model of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Steve Powell, Chief Executive of SignHealth: “The IAPT service is available for the general population, including black and ethnic minority groups, but up until now it has not been appropriately accessible for the Deaf population.
“We will be providing the first specialist IAPT service for Deaf people in England, which will be piloted in South Central including Buckinghamshire, and will be known under the name of ‘BSL Healthy Minds’.’’
SignHealth's BSL Healthy Minds pilot service will employ Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), fluent in sign language, who will give one-to-one support for Deaf people experiencing mental health problems.
Until now the communication needs of a Deaf person seeking support for personal issues have been managed by having an interpreter in the room or by
not accessing any treatment at all.
To provide an interpreter is not only costly and time consuming, but more importantly from the Deaf person’s perspective is not therapeutically effective.
Mr Powell said: “Having a BSL fluent therapist enables trust to build quickly and increase the effectiveness of the therapy enormously.”
For more information about SignHealth or its BSL Healthy Minds service, call 01494 687600 , text 07966 976747 or visit Sign Health.
The deaf community in will benifit from psychological therapy services comming to Milton Keynes.
SignHealth have been awarded a contract to provide services to the South Central region of England.
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) is a government initiative aimed at improving emotional and psychological well-being, and getting people into work or back into work through a stepped care model of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Steve Powell, Chief Executive of SignHealth: “The IAPT service is available for the general population, including black and ethnic minority groups, but up until now it has not been appropriately accessible for the Deaf population.
“We will be providing the first specialist IAPT service for Deaf people in England, which will be piloted in South Central including Buckinghamshire, and will be known under the name of ‘BSL Healthy Minds’.’’
SignHealth's BSL Healthy Minds pilot service will employ Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs), fluent in sign language, who will give one-to-one support for Deaf people experiencing mental health problems.
Until now the communication needs of a Deaf person seeking support for personal issues have been managed by having an interpreter in the room or by
not accessing any treatment at all.
To provide an interpreter is not only costly and time consuming, but more importantly from the Deaf person’s perspective is not therapeutically effective.
Mr Powell said: “Having a BSL fluent therapist enables trust to build quickly and increase the effectiveness of the therapy enormously.”
For more information about SignHealth or its BSL Healthy Minds service, call 01494 687600 , text 07966 976747 or visit Sign Health.