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- Title
Cognitive-behavioural therapy for severe mental disorders.
- Authors
Rector, Neil A.
- Abstract
The article presents information about the research papers related to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The CBT treatment approach to schizophrenia has been detailed in several step-by-step treatment manuals. Typically, it includes these therapeutic goals: the establishment of a solid therapeutic alliance; psychoeducation, within a biopsychosocial model, about the nature of psychosis; reducing stigma and normalizing the symptoms of psychosis; delivering cognitive and behavioural interventions to reduce the occurrence and distress associated with delusions and hallucinations; reducing comorbid anxiety and depression; reducing relapse. Physician Corrine Cather, a leading expert in the CBT treatment of schizophrenia at Harvard Medical School, outlines a novel cognitive-behavioral approach to remediating social functioning deficits. In contrast to the prevailing view that the symptoms of psychosis should be targeted first to remove putative barriers to improved social and vocational performance, she outlines a new treatment approach wherein the primary treatment target is to harness patients' motivation to help them identify, pursue and achieve important life goals in the face of residual psychotic symptoms.
- Subjects
BEHAVIOR therapy; SCHIZOPHRENIA; COGNITION disorders; MENTAL depression; PSYCHOSES; PSYCHOTHERAPY
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2005, Vol 50, Issue 5, p245
- ISSN
0706-7437
- Publication type
commentary
- DOI
10.1177/070674370505000502