GOVERNMENT’S PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAMME OFFERS CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR NURSES

THERE has been a sharp rise in the number of British health practitioners being trained in psychotherapy, giving nurses a significant opportunity to diversify their skill-set, enrich their careers and make more money.The opportunity has come from the Increased Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) programme. By July 2011, it had trained more than 3,400 new psychotherapists and a further 5,382 new trainees entered training in the academic year 2011/12, the Department of Health said in its “IAPT Three Year Report: The First Million Patients” published in ...


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