Transcript The Work Programme

Goals is a powerful system that
speeds up the process of change in
people’s lives
Who do we support?
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Charities and training Providers
Colleges
80 Prisons and YOI’s - NACRO
Local Councils and regeneration organisations
Work Programme/Work Choice providers
JCP
Who are we?
not psychologists or mental health
professionals but
Programmes developed with
Psychological Input
21 years experience of working with
hardest to help clients with multiple
barriers including mental health
challenges.
Who do we work with?
Clients with multiple barriers including
Long term unemployed
Homeless
Lone Parents
Offenders & ex-offenders
Disadvantaged young people
People with mental health
challenges
What is GOALS
A short sharp group intervention PLUS
skilled 1 on 1 Coaching. A blend of: • group CBT
• positive psychology
• NLP
• solution/work focussed
• motivational interviewing
• person centred
Where are we now
•individuals too often failing or
“being failed”
•value of work underestimated
•school a painful experience –
“fear of learning”
•prisons are full up
•high rates of re-offending
•cynical media bad news/soaps
Where are we now
•people are isolated, alienated and
scared
•old certainties diminishing - a secure
job, family support, sense of community
•blame culture
•immediate gratification
•learned helplessness – low aspirations
•co-dependency
Where are we now
•UNICEF research concluded UK is worst
country in developed world for young
people to grow up
•1 in 4 of us will have some sort of
mental health problems in our lives.
•deep seated psychological problems
needing “psychological solutions” (staff
and clients)
Layard report June 2006
•1 in 6 people in the UK would be
diagnosed as having depression or
chronic anxiety disorder (6 million)
•40% of people on IB are there because
of mental illness
•Only 25% of those diagnosed are in
treatment
•CBT has 50% short term success (even
works for schizophrenia)
More specialists
Need additional 10,000 Cognitive
behaviour therapists
Including 5000 clinical psychologists
Plus
5000 psychological therapists
Or
Group CBT based interventions like
GOALS with specialist facilitators.
What is CBT
• A clinically proven psychotherapeutic
approach based on scientific principles
• Used widely by health professionals
recommended by NICE
• Relies on simple yet powerful
interventions
• Short duration/brief intervention
• Utilizes a very directive, action/goalorientated approach
• Group PLUS individual
Common symptoms among long
term unemployed
• Low self esteem
• Anger/hurt
• Loss of control
• Blame – external locus of control
• Hopelessness
• Lack of purpose and goals
• Depression (often low grade)
• Anxiety and fear
What works within W2W
Scale-ability - consistency
• Building deep levels of trust
• Group CBT based intervention
• Engaging hearts and minds
• Quick, honest Diagnosis
• Good Signposting if appropriate
• Meaningful GOALS as antidote to
depression and hopelessness
• Consistent presence of a “healthy” coach
• Tough love
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Integrated Solution
Staff
Attitude
Training
Short sharp
intervention
For clients
Consistent
follow-up
Coaching
Supervision and Management Support
Goals
“Speeding up the process of change
in people’s lives”
Philip Collett
07973 311869
[email protected]
www.goalsuk.org