Ebook: CBT for Psychosis: A Symptom-based Approach

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I Cognitive models of psychosis and their assessment; 1 Introduction: CBT for psychosis: A symptom-based approach; 2 Cognitive models of auditory hallucinations; 3 Cognitive models for delusions; 4 Assessment for symptoms of psychosis; Part II The practice of CBT for persons with psychotic symptoms; 5 The therapeutic alliance in cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis; 6 Using normalising in cognitive behaviourl therapy for schizophrenia.;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 symptomshow to treat psychotic symptoms using CBTCBT for specific and co-morbid conditions CBT of.