Divorcing couples in U.K. offered counselling on the National Health Service for the first time

November 22, 2009

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From April, couples’ counselling programmes will be launched across England in an extension of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme of “talking therapies”, which has targets to tackle “sick-note Britain”.
Troubled relationships are thought to be among the key factors affecting rates of mental health and anxiety. Research consistently suggests that men in particular who are in successful relationships are more protected from depression and anxiety than those who are single, divorced or separated. Source: Guardian