Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and ParanoiaWiley, 1996 - 212 pages Psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and nurses are increasingly involved in treatments which include psychological therapy, and particularly cognitive therapy, for serious mental disorders. The aim of this book is to guide such professionals towards better practice by treating the individual symptoms of delusions, voices and paranoia, rather than by the categorisation of schizophrenia. The authors provide an introduction to their cognitive model and show how therapy depends crucially on the collaborative relationship with the client. While earlier approaches to these distressing symptoms depended on an overall model of schizophrenia which emphasised fundamental discontinuities with normal thought and psychological processes, the authors? approach is supported by substantial research that indicates that delusions, voices and paranoia lie on a continuum of differences in thought and behaviour, and do not arise from fundamentally different psychological processes. This book offers a practical, research-based and essentially hopeful approach to the assessment and treatment of psychotic disorders and also an argument for the development of a person model for treatment, which is based on the person?s enduring psychological vulnerabilities. This book appears in The Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology Series Editor: J. Mark G. Williams University of Wales, Bangor, UK |
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... conceptual confusion . For example , Berrios and others make a reasoned and reasonable state- ment if they assert that from a psychiatric point of view the content of delusions is insignificant , even irrelevant . But if they assert ...
... conceptual confusion . For example , Berrios and others make a reasoned and reasonable state- ment if they assert that from a psychiatric point of view the content of delusions is insignificant , even irrelevant . But if they assert ...
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... conceptual grounds because of the shifting sands of what people in dif- ferent cultures , groups , and periods of history will believe ( Harper , 1992 ) . One further approach to defining delusions , which retains the character of the ...
... conceptual grounds because of the shifting sands of what people in dif- ferent cultures , groups , and periods of history will believe ( Harper , 1992 ) . One further approach to defining delusions , which retains the character of the ...
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... conceptual tasks in therapy , but should not be taken as rigid divisions in the way therapy is practised . By now it should be plain that the cognitive approach is first and foremost a conceptual position from which to view a person's ...
... conceptual tasks in therapy , but should not be taken as rigid divisions in the way therapy is practised . By now it should be plain that the cognitive approach is first and foremost a conceptual position from which to view a person's ...
Contents
A cognitive view of delusions and voices | 1 |
The practice of therapy and the problem | 25 |
assessment and formulation | 45 |
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