Person-Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressing Psychosis / Edition 1

by Paul Chadwick

Overview

This book provides a practical framework for using a person based cognitive therapy approach for addressing the range of problems experienced by people with psychosis. Chapters 1-4 provide a context for the approach and chapters 5-12 cover the clinical application of the approach. Key features include; the integration of the author’s work on Mindfulness (simple meditation technique that is similarly creating a lot of interest at present) for people with psychosis; inclusion of the two-chair method; plus a chapter on group therapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470019320
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/18/2006
Series:	Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology , #81
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.96(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Professor 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.

Table of Contents

About the Author ix

Acknowledgements xi

Chapter 1 Person-Based Cognitive Therapy (PBCT) for Psychosis 1

Chapter 2 Relationship Building, Therapist Assumptions and Radical Collaboration 20

Chapter 3 Framework for PBCT: The Zone of Proximal Development 37

Chapter 4 Working with Symptomatic Meaning 58

Chapter 5 Relationship to Internal Experience: Mindfulness Practice 78

Chapter 6 Working with Schemata 98

Chapter 7 Self-Acceptance and the Symbolic Self 117

Chapter 8 PBCT Groups: Principles and Practice 138

Chapter 9 Ending and the Process of Change 157

Appendix BAVQ–R 174

References 177

Index 183