Human Givens Foundation

The Human Givens Foundation was established in 2004 to raise the funds necessary to promote research into the human givens approach and build the first Human Givens Centre for Treatment and Training.

The Foundation currently is supporting two research projects:

1) a two-year research study into the cost-effectiveness of employing a human givens trained therapist in a general practice setting. The Foundation's Board decided in September 2005 to commence the research project, to be led by Dr Gina Johnson, the research director of the Stopsley Group practice in Luton.It is a research practice, funded by the Department of Health, which in 2004 was awarded 'Investigator-led Research Practice' status by the Royal College of General Practice, one of only seventeen such practices in the UK. It also belongs to a newly formed Practice Based Commissioning group which covers approximately 70,000 patients.

The study will examine whether integrating a human givens therapist in an NHS general practice is effective in meeting the needs of primary care patients with mental health problems and psychosocial distress. The study also incorporates a case-control economic analysis, using both historical and control practice data, on both prescribing rates for relevant medication and also referral rates to counselling and Community Mental Health Services.

This project is supported with a generous grant from the Steel Charitable Trust.

2) Outcome research, which measures the client's own assessment of his wellbeing before-session and after-session with a human givens therapist using nationally recognised scoring tools, such as the CORE and COREnet tools used by the NHS. These results can then be compared to those achieved with other forms of psychotherapy.

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