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Last updated on Monday 23rd January by Janet Badger
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is the name given to a condition in which people experience repetitive and upsetting thoughts and/or behaviours. OCD Action is the largest national charity focusing on Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. Their vision is of a society where OCD is better understood and diagnosed quickly, where appropriate treatment options are open and accessible, where support and information are readily available and where nobody feels ashamed to ask for help. They provide support and information to anybody affected by OCD, work to raise awareness of the disorder amongst the public and frontline healthcare workers and strive to secure a better deal for people with OCD.
OCD has a national helpline number 0845 390 6232 and provide advocacy in all areas
Last updated on Thursday 4th August by Janet Badger
This website is a useful resource for those looking for support or general advice about counselling.
The purpose of the site is ultimately to provide the UK with a huge counselling support network, enabling those in distress to find a counsellor close to them and appropriate for their needs. This is a free, confidential service that will hopefully encourage those in distress to seek help. The website also contains a number of sections on emotional disorders (types of distress section) and provides some useful statistics. Every counsellor on the site who has submitted their profile has either sent a copy of their qualifications and insurance cover to us, or is registered with a professional body online with recognised codes of ethics and practice, this way we can be assured of their professionalism.
Formore information contact Emily Attewel, Counselling Directory, e: emily@counselling-directory.org.uk.
Telephone: 0844 3760 135
website: http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CounsellingDirectory
Last updated on Monday 23rd March by Wendy Banks
Action for Advocacy (A4A) is a central point of information on independent advocacy
Last updated on Monday 23rd March by Wendy Banks
OPAAL is a registered charity with 175 member groups, which seeks to give the strategic lead in the development of independent advocacy for older people OPAAL’s immediate aims are:
to promote independent advocacy with older people as a right
to contribute to the development of standards, including greatly improved access, and
to develop better practice in the field.
National Coalition of Citizen Advocacy Schemes
Last updated on Monday 23rd March by Wendy Banks
The Coalition is the national voice for groups that match and support informal volunteer citizen advocacy partnerships
The Williams Syndrome Foundation
Last updated on Monday 23rd March by Wendy Banks
Foundation finds many ways to help Williams syndrome children and their families.
Last updated on Monday 23rd March by Wendy Banks
Tourettes Action is the UK’s leading support and research charity for people with Tourette Syndrome (TS) and their families.
Last updated on Monday 23rd March by Wendy Banks
The Norah Fry Research Centre carries out research on issues affecting the lives of disabled children and adults with learning difficulties and their families. Through our research findings, we aim to influence policy, improve services and support, empower and inform service users, families and professionals.
Last updated on Monday 23rd March by Wendy Banks
The Tizard Centre is one of the leading UK academic groups working in learning disability and community care. The primary aims of the Tizard Centre are:
•to advance knowledge about the relationship between the organisation of community care services and their outcomes, and
•to help service agencies (both purchasers and providers) develop their own competence to provide and sustain high quality, comprehensive community care services
Last updated on Monday 23rd March by Wendy Banks
Social Care Online is the UK's most extensive free database of social care information. With everything from research briefings, to reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites and you find it all with the click of a button. Updated daily by SCIE's experienced information managers, Social Care Online offers unrivalled free access and ease of use.