Self-Help Access In Routine Primary-Care (SHARP)

What is Sharp?

Self-help Access in Routine Primary Care (SHARP) was a project designed to enable primary care practitioners to support people with mild to moderate anxiety and/or depression to access to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) based self-help information.

It also involved a training programme for practitioners to enable them to:

To understand the Five Areas Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) model and how it is used in the self-help leaflets.
To identify people who are suitable for guided self-help.
To engage people in the guided self-help approach.
To identify appropriate self-help materials for an individual’s problems and goals.
To support people to make use of the self-help materials.

Leaflets

Getting started

Understanding your problem

The 5 areas problem

Managing your problem

Monitoring your symptoms

Helpful websites

Contact Us

For any feedback or queries about the website, self-help materials or training, contact

Mike Lucock
Professor of Clinical Psychology
University of Huddersfield and the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
T: 01484 257565
E: m.lucock@hud.ac.uk, mike.lucock@swyt.nhs.uk