Putting PRaCTICED into practice

In June 2013 Therapy Today interviewed Professor Michael Barkham about embarking on a large-scale randomised control trial (RCT), funded by the BACP Research Foundation and based at the University of Sheield, that aimed to assess whether counselling for depression (CfD) was noninferior to CBT for patients with moderate to severe depression when delivered in IAPT services. The trial is being conducted in partnership with the Sheield IAPT service. Two years into the trial members of the research team provide an update on some of the inpractice challenges that have arisen in conducting an RCT within a local IAPT service and the solutions that, it is hoped, will overcome them.