How can you balance voluntary work with private practice? Working to enact change on prescribed drug dependence, UKCP psychotherapist Anne Guy shares her time between sitting on the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prescribed Drug Dependence and on an NHS advisory group.

Event hosted by the British Psychological Society discussing the issue of increasing numbers of prescriptions of psychiatric drugs, including benzodiazepines, antidepressants, antipsychotics, and stimulants. The event is based on the “Guidance for Psychological Therapists – Enabling conversations with clients taking or withdrawing from prescribed psychiatric drugs”. Speakers: Professor John Read, Professor Joanna Moncrieff, Dr Mark Horowitz and Dr Anne Guy. https://prescribeddrug.info/training/

Discussion of withdrawal from psychiatric medications, problems with psychiatry's over-reliance on the biomedical model, the difference between 'addiction' and 'dependence', and counseling beyond diagnosis.

Therapists are now more likely than ever to be working with clients who are taking or withdrawing from prescribed drugs. These presentations by the main editors of the Guidance for Psychological Therapists are based on the companion publication “A short guide to what every psychological therapist should know about working with psychiatric drugs”. They will give you the information you need to work more confidently with clients and gives answers to many questions about working with prescribed psychiatric drugs in therapy. Speakers: Dr James Davies, Professor Rosemary Rizq, Dr Anne Guy. https://prescribeddrug.info/training/