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| Thursday, 18 February 2010 14:06 |
 18th February 2010 COMPUTERISED COGNITIVE THERAPIES COME TO OLDHAM
Mental health charity Self Help Services has just launched its seventh computerised cognitive therapy service, this time extending to people living in the Borough of Oldham.
The Beating the Blues course is a computerised cognitive behavioural therapy designed to help people beat symptoms of anxiety and depression over eight weekly one-hour sessions. In Oldham Self Help Services is offering two cCBT courses: Beating the Blues – which is recommended by NICE for the treatment of mild to moderate depression and Fear Fighter, which is recommended by NICE in the treatment of panic and phobia.
Recently Self Help Services celebrated its Hulme based computerised cognitive behavioural therapy service reaching its 1000th referral in just two years of operation.
Self Help Services launched the service at the Zion Centre in Hulme in February 2007. And in just six months it had proved so popular, the charity launched similar servicesin Salford and East Manchester.
cCBT manager for Self Help Services Nick Seccombe said: “The service at the Zion Centre was popular from the very start. Previously, people with anxiety and depression would be referred by their GP for one to one therapy with a counsellor. But invariably this would mean being put on a waiting list.
He added: “The cCBT services have been very well used across Manchester, Trafford, Stockport and Salford. We're delighted to received NHS Oldham funding to offer the course to the people of Oldham.”
Patients can be referred or refer themselves to Self Help Services’ cCBT service, as each individual is assessed by a SHS member of staff before starting the sessions.
For more information about Self Help Services and any of the cCBT courses please call 0161 232 7854 or email
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See below for the venues of cCBT courses taking place across Oldham.
· Failsworth School
Brierley Avenue
Failsworth, Manchester,
M35 9HA
Venue will run on Tuesday evenings in the school's library.
6:30pm to 8:30pm
· Chadderton Court Social Inclusion Resource Centre
451 Middleton Rd, Chadderton,
Oldham,
Lancashire
OL9 9LB
Venue will run on Thursday evenings from 4:00pm to 9:00pm
· The LaticZone Centre
Oldham Athletic
Boundary Park
Furtherwood Road
Oldham, OL1 2PA
Venue will run on Wednesday's from 10:30am to 2:30pm (
· Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre,
Cultural Quarter,
Greaves Street,
Oldham,
OL1 1AL
Venue will run on Monday afternoon's from 3:30pm to 6:30pm
For press information please contact Communications Officer Dawn Bunnell on 0161 227 0205 or mobile 07723 997 113 or email
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