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  • Improving Practice for Young People - An Introduction to CORE YP

    Saturday 14th January 2012 - 10.00-16.30 - Central London

    CORE (Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation) for adults is widely recognised as one of the most reliable and useful outcome measures for use in the psychological therapy services across the UK. YP-CORE Outcome Measure has been designed to be suitable for use across a wide variety of service types for young people aged 11-16 (secondary school age.

    CORE YP has been shown to have considerable validity, is reliable and clinically relevant. It can be used as an assessment too and an outcome measure.

  • New Ways of Working

    Enhance, Include, Evolve, New Ways of Working for the Allied Health Professionals.

    Dramatherapy and Dramatherapists are featured in this recent publication about New Ways of Working in Mental Health: www.newwaysofworking.org.uk/content/view/19/430/

     

  • Speech by the Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP

    Speech by the Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP: Arts and Healthcare Event - “Open to All:” Mental Health, Social Inclusion and Museums and Galleries

    In a speech on the 16th September 2008, Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for Health, advocated the use of the Arts and Arts Therapies for mental health services. Read it here: www.dh.gov.uk/en/News/Speeches/DH_088160.

  • Short Courses and Workshops not run by BADth

    Some BADth members run short courses and workshops.  Some of these are advertised on the members' own websites which can be accessed via our 'Links' page.  Please note that these courses are not organised by BADth and enquiries will need to made through the addresses provided on the Websites.  Short courses are also run by the universities who provide full training.  Contact details for the universities can be found on the career/training page.

  • Arts Therapies in Scotland

    A report about Arts Therapies in Scotland can be accessed here (PDF file, 831KB).

    The Arts Therapies are signatories to the New Savoy Declaration, calling for wider access to psychological therapies in the NHS.

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 The British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth) is the professional body for Dramatherapists in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1977, is formally constituted with Officers and an Executive Committee and has its own Code of Practice. BADth has the legal status of a non-profit-making company, limited by guarantee. Currently, it does not have charitable status. Through the work of its executive officers, sub-committees and individual members, it represents Dramatherapists' interests in numerous ways: for example, with employing authorities, government departments, professional bodies and the media.