CBT for Psychosis: A Symptom-based Approach

by Hagen; Roger

• ISBN13: 9780415549479
• ISBN10: 0415549477
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-11-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book offers a new approach to understanding and treating psychotic symptoms using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). CBT for Psychosis shows how this approach clears the way for a shift away from a biological understanding and towards a psychological understanding of psychosis.Stressing the important connection between mental illness and mental health, further topics of discussion include: the assessment and formulation of psychotic symptoms how to treat psychotic symptoms using CBT CBT for specific and co morbid conditions CBT of bipolar disorders.This book brings together international experts from different aspects of this fast developing field and will be of great interest to all mental health professionals working with people suffering from psychotic symptoms.

Author Biography

Roger Hagen, PhD, PsyD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Douglas Turkington, MD, Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom. Torkil Berge, PsyD, Psychologist, Vinderen Community Mental Health Centre, Diakonhjemmet Sykehus, Oslo, Norway. Rolf W. Grwe, PhD, PsyD, Head of R D Unit, Drug and Alcohol Treatment in Central Norway, Norway.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. x
List of contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Preface	p. xv
Cognitive models of psychosis and their assessment	p. 1
Introduction: CBT for psychosis: A symptom-based approach	p. 3
Cognitive models of auditory hallucinations	p. 12
Cognitive models for delusions	p. 22
Assessment for symptoms of psychosis	p. 40
The practice of CBT for persons with psychotic symptoms	p. 57
The therapeutic alliance in cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis	p. 59
Using normalising in cognitive behavioural therapy for schizophrenia	p. 77
Cognitive behaviour therapy and early intervention	p. 86
Command hallucinations: Theory and psychological interventions	p. 99
Cognitive characterization and therapy of negative symptoms and formal thought disorder	p. 116
Staying well after psychosis: A cognitive interpersonal approach to emotional recovery and relapse prevention	p. 128
Implementing cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis: Issues and solutions	p. 144
CBT and co-occurring problems	p. 159
The treatment of substance misuse in people with serious mental disorders	p. 161
Treating trauma in people with first-episode psychosis using cognitive behavioural therapy	p. 175
Integrating the family in the treatment of psychotic disorders	p. 193
Psychological interventions to improve work outcomes for people with psychiatric disabilities	p. 210
CBT and bipolar disorders	p. 231
The psychology of bipolar disorders	p. 233
Cognitive theory and therapy of bipolar disorders	p. 245
Name index	p. 259
Subject index	p. 267
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