This is for those with specific mental health problems, in ADDITION to anxiety or depression. It uses the SilverCloud approach and requires a cCBT referral through SCI Gateway. Patients can see detail on the SilverCloud patient information leaflet.
The cCBT modules currently available are:
There are 4 other approaches to help with mental health conditions. For patients with:
- Pure anxiety or depression – please use SilverCloud
- Anxiety or insomnia – please see Daylight and Sleepio
- An additional (physical) Long-Term Condition refer to the LTCs cCBT page
- needing a brief psychoeducational approach there are wellbeing self-referral modules.
Reviews:
- These are conducted by the Digital Interventions Team every 3 weeks to review progress
- Patients can move at their own pace, but at each review they will be asked to complete:
- PHQ9 and GAD7
- A clinical questionnaire relevant to their condition
- A RISK questionnaire (please see Suicidal thoughts and Alerts for details of action taken when these reach a certain threshold.)
Who to refer:
A reading age of 10 to 11 years is needed to complete cCBT programmes; much of the material is audio and video based for those who have lower levels of literacy.
Home User Technical Requirements
Patients completing the programme require:
- An internet enabled device (PC/Laptop, smartphone or tablet)
- A stable internet connection
Silvercloud Long Term Conditions cCBT is suitable for patients:
- With mild to moderate depression and/or anxiety, associated with:
- Health anxiety
- Social anxiety
- OCD
- Panic
- Phobia
- Willing to be pro-active in their treatment recovery and to use an online treatment
- With a personal email address to receive a link to access the treatment provided with referral
- Who are currently undertaking another cCBT treatment: patients must please complete ‘Beating the Blues’ cCBT treatment before starting any Silvercloud cCBT programme.
How to refer:
Please refer through SCI Gateway via:
Lothian >
Lothian Non-GP >
Royal Edinburgh >
General Psychiatry
Protocol: cCBT Referral
- Please select the appropriate Silvercloud treatment from the dropdown list available on SCI Gateway
- Please note that patients can only undertake one cCBT treatment at a time
- Please include an email address with consent for this to be passed on, and there are reminders on the SCI Gateway protocol to do this. Please avoid any shared (work/family) email address wherever possible. Patients who do not have a personal email address will be contacted by telephone.
- If it is not possible to refer via SCI Gateway, referrals should be made by completing the appropriate Silvercloud cCBT referral form. These should be emailed from any @nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk email address to silvercloudcbt@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
If you have any queries about which treatments or how/where to refer, please contact the team by phone: 0131 537 1247.
