Residents tackling mental health issues have a brand new route to free treatment in York.
In partnership with national health professionals, York’s Libraries are launching an innovative mental health self-help initiative.
The Books on Prescription scheme follows the opening of new reading café at a mental health treatment centre in the city, and enables GPs and mental health professionals to write a ‘book prescription’ as part of a patients’ cognitive behavioural therapy.
This recommends reading from a set of 30 self-help books approved by health professionals and designed to help people address or manage health problems such as anxiety or depression.