Cognitive Therapy for Delusions Voices and Paranoia - Brossura

Chadwick, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0471961736 ISBN 13: 9780471961734

Casa editrice: Wiley, 1999

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

<p><b>Paul Chadwick</b>, 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, <i>Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia</i>, also published by John Wiley and Sons.</p> <p><b>Max J. Birchwood</b> 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.</p> <p><b>Peter Trower</b> is the author of <i>Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia</i>, published by Wiley.</p>

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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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wiley
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0471961736
• ISBN 13: 9780471961734
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile