LGBT Groups: Mental-Health Needs

Part of Health, Social Services And Public Safety – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 2:30 am on 30 June 2008.

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Photo of Michael McGimpsey Michael McGimpsey UUP 2:30, 30 June 2008

I am not in a position to talk about sexual confusion. What I am in a position to do is to reflect what the American Psychiatric Association concluded. There are cognitive-behaviour therapies available, and one of the thrusts of the Bamford Review concerned the need for provision to deal with depression, panic disorder, social phobia, bulimia, obsessive and compulsive disorders, and so on. That is very much the thrust of the work that my Department is undertaking, and of the budget allocation that I am making for the provision of mental-health services.