Saturday, July 6, 2013

Governments taking citizen's well-being seriously?!

As I procrastinate doing my own writing (letter writing, blog writing...), I've been doing some reading and stumbled upon an online magazine called Aeon.

CBT is not the answer to a "Good Life",
but having these programs accessible is a good idea!
One of the pieces, in their "Living Together" section is titled Their Good Life. Jules Evans writes about governments now providing free psychotherapy to citizens. An initiative called Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) has been launched in the UK, with hopes of training 6000 new therapists in talking therapies such as CBT! Sweden is also following their lead with a similar program.

I thought this was very much related to occupational therapy and it made me giddy with excitement on the inside. =)