Posted 30th April 2025
Review of our Family Intervention for Psychosis & Bipolar Course
Charley Wheatley recently completed our Family Intervention for Psychosis and Bipolar course. This is a 12 month course funded through NHS England. Charley has very kindly written this review of her experiences on the...
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Posted 26th March 2025
Information Sharing & Confidentiality: 21st October 2025
On 21st October 2025 we will be running a one day course focusing on information sharing and confidentiality when working with families and carers. You will have opportunity to hear from carers about their...
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Posted 26th March 2025
National Clinical Audit of Psychosis: State of the Nation Report 2024
The Royal College of Psychiatrists published the National Clinical Audit of Psychosis State of the Nation Report 2024 in February 2025. The National Clinical Audit of Psychosis is commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement...
Read the full storyPosted 14th March 2025
BFT session for Core Psychiatry Training
On Thursday 27th February 2025, the Meriden Programme delivered a teaching session to Medics on the West Midlands (Birmingham) Year 3 core training (CT3) programme for 2024/2025. The course is for core training doctors...
Read the full storyPosted 11th February 2025
1 Day BFT Supervisors Course 21.05.2025
Wednesday 21st May 2025 via MS Teams Are you trained in BFT and working with families? Would you like to be able to supervise others in the delivery of BFT? This course is for...
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Posted 7th February 2025
Peter Woodhams – Outstanding Contribution to the Sector, Mental Health Awards 2024
In October 2024 Peter Woodhams, Carer Consultant with Meriden Family Programme for over 20 years received the Outstanding Contribution to the Sector award at the Mental Health Awards 2024. Peter is a hugely valued...
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Posted 7th February 2025
Young Carers Films
Tees, Esk & Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust have produced an excellent series of four short films from the perspective of young carers. The films feature young carers talking about their lives, themselves, their...
Read the full storyPosted 7th February 2025
Exploring clinicians’ experience of using Behavioural Family Therapy within an older adult community mental health service
Jayne Westwood and colleagues have published their research into the experiences of using BFT in an older adult community mental health service. The paper presents findings of a service evaluation in which staff were...
Read the full storyPosted 5th July 2024
Give it a go: Reflection on BFT training | Radha Yagnik
If there is one thing I would suggest it is, give it a go. The course was easy to follow with ample opportunities to practice what we had been taught. As an Assistant Psychologist...
Read the full storyPosted 28th June 2024
Evaluating Family Interventions for Depression
Research is underway in Italy to evaluate the use of psychoeducational family intervention (PFI) for depression. PFI is based on Ian Falloon’s work and is similar to behavioural family therapy. You can read more...
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