Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia / Edition 1

by Paul Chadwick, Max J. Birchwood, Peter Trower

Overview

Internationally respected authors, actively working in this area, establish theoretical reasons for extending cognitive therapy to these symptoms. This includes a justification for looking at symptoms rather than syndromes, first-person accounts of delusions and hallucinations along with an analysis of why the cognitive approach is ideally suited to the study and treatment of these disabling disorders. Describes how to make a cognitive assessment of both hallucinations and delusions and which measures to use. Contains new research and methods of managing these severe psychoses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471961734
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/04/1999
Series:	Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology , #93
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Paul Chadwick, PhD, is Head of Clinical Psychology at the Royal South Hants Hospital, and Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton. He has an international reputation for his ground-breaking, applied research over the past 20 years on cognitive therapy for psychosis and is lead author on an infl uential book written with M.J. Birchwood and P. Trower, Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia, also published by John Wiley and Sons.

Max J. Birchwood is Professor of Clinical Psychology and the Director of Early Intervention Service at the Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust. He is also a Professor of Psychology at the University of Birmingham.

Peter Trower is the author of Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

A Cognitive View of Delusions and Voices.

The Practice of Therapy and the Problem of Engagement.

Delusions: Assessment and Formulation.

Challenging Delusions.

Voices: Engagement and Assessment.

Disputing and Testing Beliefs about Voices.

Cognitive Therapy for Paranoia.

Challenging Cases and Issues.

From a Symptom Model to a Person Model.

References.

Appendices.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"…on my last visit [to Amazon] the recommendations were [this book]…" (The Independent {Review}, 8 October 2003)

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