We worked with NHS England to assess digitally enabled therapies that:
- followed NICE recommendations
- addressed a condition managed by the IAPT programme.
What is IAPT?
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services provide evidence-based psychological therapies to people with anxiety disorders and depression.
We assessed digitally enabled therapies for anxiety, depression and medically unexplained symptoms which offer the potential to expand these services further. Read about how we assessed these therapies.
What is digitally enabled therapy?
Digitally enabled therapy is therapy content delivered online or through mobile applications which allows learning to be achieved through patient self-study. This is reinforced and supported by trained therapists.
View a list of the digital therapies that have been assessed by the programme.
NICE guidance for conditions managed by IAPT
- Common mental health problems: identification and pathways to care (CG123)
- Depression in adults: recognition and management (CG90)
- Depression in adults with a chronic physical health problem: recognition and management (CG91)
- Generalised anxiety disorder and panic disorder in adults: management (CG113)
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder: treatment (CG31)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder: management (CG26)
- Social anxiety disorder: recognition, assessment and treatment (CG159)
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (or encephalopathy): diagnosis and management (CG53)
- Irritable bowel syndrome in adults: diagnosis and management (CG61)
- Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance (CG192)