BABCP Best Practice Guidance
This guidance is intended to offer providers of CBT services an opportunity to review their provision against best practice. Click the cover image to download the guide.
LGBTQ+ Positive Practice Guide
The LGBTQ+ Positive Practice Guide for NHS Talking Therapies has been published by the LGBT Foundation.
BABCP 2025 – 2028 Strategy – Members’ Guide
Our 2025 – 2028 Strategy includes a number of member-specific goals that we are working towards. These goals have been set based upon feedback received from members, with progress being reported throughout the next three years. BABCP members can see these goals by downloading the Members’ Guide below.
Perinatal Positive Practice Guide
This guide is for NHS Talking Therapies (formerly known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)) clinicians, service managers and commissioners involved in the delivery of psychological interventions for perinatal parents. The document includes information on the foundations of perinatal service provision, working with partners or significant sources of support, as well as ethnically and […]
If a patient dies by suicide – A resource for Mental Health Professionals
This resource was developed by a team of mental health professionals in collaboration with the Oxford University Centre for Suicide Research. It was written based on information from surveys of mental health professionals and on clinical and research experience by a multidisciplinary group of clinicians, all of whom had themselves experienced deaths of patients by […]
Private Practice Guidelines
In collaboration with members of the BABCP Independent Practitioners Special Interest Group, this Private Practice Guidelines document has been produced to assist therapists in navigating the process of becoming an independent practitioner. This interactive document covers a range of topics, and includes hyperlinks to external resources and sites that therapists will find beneficial when setting […]
Armed Forces Veterans Positive Practice Guide
This Positive Practice Guide is intended for use by those who provide mainstream NHS mental health services for British Armed Forces Veterans. It has been collated in conjunction with the NHS England Armed Forces Team (including their Armed Forces Clinical Reference Group and service users), University of Exeter, Westminster Centre for Research in Veterans at […]
Older Adults Positive Practice Guide
The NHS Talking Therapies Positive Practice Guide: Older People (2024) has been produced by BABCP, Age UK, the Mental Health Foundation, as well as NHS Talking Therapies services to provide a resource to therapists who work with older people. The Guide recognises that older people are a heterogenous group with different identities, needs and experiences […]
A Cognitive Behavioural Therapists Guide to Evidence
Mental health problems are serious and widespread. We need therapies that work. As a CBT therapist you will have been taught during training about some of the key research studies and learned that CBT is based on evidence from research and clinical practice. The science behind it is strong. A key part of our mission […]
Good Practice Guide for working with children, young people and families
The aim of this good practice guide is to provide CBT therapists who are interested in working with children, young people and families, with information about key areas of skill and knowledge that are important. Children and young people are a group with specific needs, and the CBT we offer must be tailored to these […]
