Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and

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.

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.

About the Authors

vii

Foreword

ix

Aaron Beck

Series Preface

xii

J. Mark G. Williams

Prologue

xiii

A congnitive view of delusions and voices

1

(24)

The practice of therapy and the problem of engagement

25

(20)

Delusions: Assessment and formulation

45

(24)

Challenging delusions

69

(22)

Voices: engagement and assessment

91

(24)

Disputing and testing beliefs about voices

115

(20)

Cognitive therapy for paranoia

135

(28)

Challenging cases and issues

163

(12)

From a symptom model to a person model

175

(12)

References

187

(6)

Appendix 1

193

(2)

Appendix 2

195

(6)

Appendix 3

201

(2)

Appendix 4

203

(2)

Index

205

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Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia

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