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An evaluation of the transition from BAME community mental health worker to IAPT low intensity psychological wellbeing practitioner

Part of: Low Intensity CBT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2019

Naheem Hakim ,
Andrew R. Thompson  and
Gail Coleman-Oluwabusola
Naheem Hakim
Affiliation:
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Andrew R. Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, 1 Vicar Lane, Sheffield S1 2LT, UK
Gail Coleman-Oluwabusola
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield and Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), Home Office, UK
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Abstract

The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme started in 2008, but it contained little provision for specifically meeting the needs of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups. The purpose of this evaluation was to describe the experience of transition from BAME community mental health worker (CMHW) to IAPT low-intensity psychological wellbeing practitioner (PWP) in order to identify possible gains and losses for the former communities served, and the factors that might contribute to successful training of people with BAME expertise. Four former CMHWs who had transitioned into working as PWPs were interviewed. Semi-structured interviews were used. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. Six major themes were identified with the benefits of training emerging as an important factor for the participants in enhancing their role. Three of the themes interconnected and focused on the impact for BAME communities in terms of access to service and barriers. Evident in the interviews were descriptions of adaptations that were made as a result of CMHW having access to both new and old skills. Finally, two themes focused on the participant recommendations as to how IAPT services might become more culturally responsive. The findings suggest that there can be significant benefits for services to provide IAPT training to people already providing culturally specific services. The participants reported that low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy (LICBT) was effective, but only when cultural sensitive adaptations were made. The evaluation has some clear recommendations as to how IAPT services might seek to offer culturally responsive CBT. Suggestions for carrying out further practice-based evaluations are made.

Keywords

BAMEcultural sensitivitydiversityIAPTlow-intensity CBTpsychological training

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the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist , Volume 12 , 2019 , e15
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2019 

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