Delivering Contemporary CBT Interventions to Unemployed and Working Populations: Prevention, Retention, and Rehabilitation

这个后续项目旨在为四个伙伴组织提供知识和技能，以提供基于接受和承诺治疗(ACT)的原则和实践的基于群体的心理干预。ACT是一种现代形式的认知-行为疗法，它为客户提供正念和行为激活技能的组合。该项目是在早期ESRC资助的研究项目的基础上进行的，该项目展示了一种简短的基于群体的ACT版本在改善人们的心理健康、行为功能和生活满意度方面的有效性和效率。项目合作伙伴密切参与了这项后续工作的设计，其中包括当地的一家精神卫生慈善机构，以及来自三个独立的NHS信托基金的工作人员支助/职业卫生专业人员。在该项目的第一阶段，首席调查员(伦敦城市大学的Paul Flaxman博士)将直接培训几名工作人员支助心理学家、辅导员和职业康复专家，教他们如何以小组形式提供ACT。然后，当这些合作伙伴开始向其服务用户提供基于ACT的培训时，他们将得到PI的支持和观察。项目的结果和影响将在九个月项目结束时举行的反馈讲习班上向更广泛的利益攸关方传达(这一活动将由国际和平倡议和项目合作伙伴共同主持)。该项目的最终目标是：1)加强项目合作伙伴的工作人员和就业支助服务提供；2)为国民保健系统中有常见心理健康问题的雇员提供帮助；3)改善获得当地心理健康和就业支助服务的个人的心理健康和行为功能；以及4)提供比以往更广泛的ACT干预措施。

This follow-on project is designed to provide four partner organisations with the knowledge and skills to deliver group-based psychological interventions based on the principles and practices of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). ACT is a modern form of cognitive-behavioural therapy, which provides clients with a combination of mindfulness and behavioural activation skills. The project follows-on from an earlier ESRC-funded research project, which demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of a brief group-based version of ACT for improving people's mental health, behavioural functioning, and life satisfaction. The project partners were closely involved in the design of this follow-on work, and include a local branch of Mind (a mental health charity), and staff support/ occupational health professionals from three separate NHS Trusts. In the first phase of the project, the Principal Investigator (PI; Dr. Paul Flaxman, City University London) will directly train several staff support psychologists, counsellors, and vocational rehabilitation specialists in how to deliver ACT in groups. These partners will then be supported and observed by the PI as they begin cascading ACT-based training down to their service users. The results and impact of the project will be communicated to a wider group of stakeholders at a feedback workshop held towards the end of the nine month project (this event will be co-facilitated by the PI and the project partners). The ultimate aims of the project are to: 1) enhance the project partners' staff and employment support service provision; 2) offer help to NHS employees experiencing common mental health problems; 3) improve the psychological well-being and behavioural functioning of individuals accessing local mental health and employment support services; and 4) provide much wider access to ACT interventions than has previously been possible.