Cognitive-behavioural therapy for schizophrenia

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for schizophrenia.

for schizophrenia The Insight into Schizophrenia Research Group (Turkington et al, 2002) should be congratulated in reporting results of a large study of cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) plus educational handouts v. usual care in patients with post-acute schizophrenia. Perhaps because of space restrictions, the article leaves several important questions unanswered which it may be useful to c...

Cognitive behavioural therapy for auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: A review

AIM To provide an updated of recent findings about efficacy of cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) in reduction of command hallucinations. METHODS PubMed/MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PsycINFO, ClinicalTrial.gov searches were performed using the keywords "hallucinations", "behavioural therapy" and " cognitive therapy" in order to identif...

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for schizophrenia: filling the therapeutic vacuum.

Pituitary volume reduction in schizophrenia following cognitive behavioural therapy

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for psychosis (CBTp) aims to lower the stress of psychotic symptoms. Given that the pituitary is involved in stress regulation, CBT-led stress reduction may be accompanied by a change in pituitary volume. This study aimed to determine whether CBTp reduces pituitary volume in schizophrenia. The relation between pre-therapy memory and CBTp-led pituitary volume ...

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for psychosis.

I am writing to comment on this debate (Turkington & McKenna, 2003) from the point of view of a practising clinician who regularly works with people who are experiencing or recovering from psychotic symptoms. I find both cognitive–behavioural and psychodynamic models useful in my work. Many research practitioners have reservations about using randomised controlled trials as the main test of the...