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Article by Richard Layard With modern psychological therapy, mentally ill people can become more productive and more satisfied with life. ... Read more...
11 October 2017
Behavior Economist and Nobel Prize Winner Economics Richard H. Thaler is best in joking when a journalist asks him from Stockholm what he will do with the prize. A jovial man also confirms his Belgian colleagu... Read more...
09 October 2017
Snippet: ... New Channel 5 show Make or Break puts couples through various tests - their first being to choose someone from another couple to share a bedroom with. Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioural scienc... Read more...
07 August 2017
In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense. &l... Read more...
06 August 2017
Snippet: ... "I felt like I was sold the dream, but entered a nightmare^” And you may also recognise a familiar voice on the show, as it’s narrated by MasterChef’s voiceover artist India... Read more...
05 August 2017
… David Clark, a professor of psychology at the University of Oxford, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that offering therapy to people like Oliver made economic se... Read more...
03 August 2017
In 2005 David Clark, a professor of psychology at Oxford University, and economist Richard Layard, a member of the House of Lords, concluded that providing therapy to people like Oliver made economic sense. ... Read more...
Article by Ross Levine; Yona Rubinstein ISSN 0033-5533, EISSN 1531-4650. Related publications ‘In brief...'Smart and illicit': the making of a successful entrepreneur’ R... Read more...
25 May 2017
A respected ''happiness expert'' has revealed five simple ways to make yourself feel immediately better. Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioural science at the London School of Economics, said the answer to feeling happie... Read more...
01 June 2015
Richard Layard and his colleagues at the Wellbeing research programme at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance conclude that a child's emotional health is far more important to their satisfactio... Read more...
08 November 2014
In an article sourced from the Centre for Economic Performance's Mental Health Policy Group, the Health and Social Care Information Centre, the Mental Health Foundation, Young Minds and the Guardian the Mirror explains w... Read more...
09 October 2014
The ONS' data showed that whilst, on average, Londoners have the highest disposable incomes in the country they are also the most anxious and have the lowest levels of life satisfaction. None of this will come as any sur... Read more...
24 September 2014
In a short online film, Professor Richard Layard of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) explains why treating mental illness should be high on the public agenda, especially as proven psychological therapies effecti... Read more...
23 September 2014
The project cites Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies – the latest work by Richard Layard, co-authored with David Clark, professor of psychology at Oxford University. Mr Layard is credited as on... Read more...
22 August 2014
Two of the key figures behind government reform in mental health care have spoken of the success of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative. Professor Lord Richard Layard, Emeritus Professor of ... Read more...
19 August 2014
The lost productivity and direct health expenses have an economic cost; in a recent analysis for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, the value was pegged at $50-billion a year. Labour economist Richard Layard argues ... Read more...
15 August 2014
The economist Richard Layard, after advocating that the goal of public policy should be to maximise happiness, set out to learn what the greatest impediment to happiness was today. His conclusion: depression. Depression ... Read more...
''En los paises ricos, las enfermedades mentales son el 38 percent de todas las enfermedades; y el porcentaje trepa a 50 percent en la poblacion trabajadora'', dice Richard Layard, economista de la London School of Econo... Read more...
27 July 2014
One in three families contains someone who suffers mental illness, with one in 10 children having diagnosable mental disorders - yet fewer than one-third of these people receive treatment. Such shocking statistics litte... Read more...
The true scale of the neglect of mental health in Britain is laid bare in Thrive, a remarkable and passionately argued new book by economics professor Lord Richard Layard and the clinical psychologist David Clark, which ... Read more...
25 July 2014
Mental health is receiving just 10% of NHS spending across England, with some areas dedicating more like 6 percent of their budgets to it, Sky News can reveal. Charities say the figures ''paint a profoundly worrying pict... Read more...
On average, local health authorities across England spent 10 percent of their annual budgets on mental health services during 2013/14, despite research from the London School of Economics that shows that it accounted for... Read more...
In the twenty-first century, however, the pursuit of happiness has become one of the most important means of judging our quality of life. ''Happiness is an aspiration of every human being,'' write John F. Helliwell, Rich... Read more...
19 July 2014
Stavolta il pezzo mancante non sembra tuttavia nascondersi sotto il divano - come nelle piu consuete scenette ricreative familiari - ma trovarsi tra le pagine di Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapie... Read more...
18 July 2014
Article by David M. Clark and Richard Layard Mental illness is the main sickness of the working age population with economic costs around 8% of GDP. This column, based on the authors' recent book, discusses the effectiv... Read more...
17 July 2014
Richard Layard interviewed, speaking about the issues highlighted in new book Thrive, around the need for better treatment of mental health and providing psychological therapies more widely. This interview was broad... Read more...
15 July 2014
''I've been hugely influenced by my co-author David Clark, one of the world's leading clinical psychologists. He always stressed to me that the aim of therapy is not to help people manage their condition but to recover a... Read more...
14 July 2014
Article by Richard Layard and David M. Clark, 3rd instalment in a series of excerpts from 'Thrive' A standard course of cognitive behavioural therapy involves up to 16 one-hour sessions, one-on-one - with the average nu... Read more...
11 July 2014
In an interview with Joel Suss, editor of the British Politics and Policy blog, Richard Layard discusses the importance of combating mental illness and his new book, Thrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Ther... Read more...
10 July 2014
Depression and anxiety cause more misery than physical illness, poverty or unemployment. They also impose huge economic costs. Yet they are amenable to effective and relatively cheap treatments. In the UK, however, fewer... Read more...
Once upon a time, David Cameron said that general wellbeing matters as much GDP. What's it all for if a country grows richer but its people feel no better? A genuine attempt at prioritizing wellbeing would be revolutiona... Read more...
09 July 2014
Ultimately the biggest task remains ensuring our creaking health service is more responsive to the needs of mental health outpatients. And here there may be cause for cautious optimism. Because new research by Professo... Read more...
07 July 2014
This week, a new book by Lord Layard and Professor David Clark sets out a call for a transformation in the way we think about mental health and the priority mental health care is given. Thrive: the power of evidence-base... Read more...
02 July 2014
David Clark was interviewed, discussing pscyhcological treatments for depression and anxiety. The interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on July 1, 2014 Link to programme here [Starts at 2:46:30] ... Read more...
01 July 2014
Article by Richard Layard and David M. Clark Treating mental health problems produces extraordinary savings - fewer people on welfare benefits, and fewer people being treated for physical illnesses made worse by mental ... Read more...
Professor Martin Knapp, lead researcher of the study, believes that the discrepancy is caused mainly by a lack of awareness about how the money is spent. ''It's partly because the prevalence and impacts of the disease ha... Read more...
10 June 2014
Markus Jokela, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Matti Sarvimäki, Marko Terviö, Roope Uusitalo There is strong empirical evidence of a secular rise in intelligence, but a lack of consistently measured data ... Read more...
11 July 2011