CBT for schizphrenia

Question 1

what is cbt>

Answer 1

cognitive behavioural therapy

Question 2

what view does cut take on?

Answer 2

that disorders and distress are due to cognitive factors

Question 3

what does cut combine?

Answer 3

cognitive and behavioural factors

Question 4

what does cut aim to challenge and change?

Answer 4

negative thoughts and change distorted thinking

Question 5

what is the main reason for using cbt for schizophrenia?

Answer 5

that drugs do not address all of the symptoms

Question 6

which symptoms of schizophrenia does cut aim to treat?

Answer 6

negative symptoms such as loss of motivation and withdrawal

Question 7

how does cut help sufferers?

Answer 7

it allows them to focus on their thinking and cope with symptoms

Question 8

why isn’t cbt for schizophrenia the same for depression?

Answer 8

it is more about coping with the symptoms rather than curing them
e.g identifying thoughts such as negative thinking and creating ways to cope with it

Question 9

what does cut for schizophrenia focus on?

Answer 9

the way someone structures their world cognitively and challenges the difference between psychosis and normality

Question 10

what does the one to one sessions with a therapist include?

Answer 10

talking about specific symptoms that they are experincing

Question 11

what is there a particular focus on it terms of symptoms?

Answer 11

the subjective experience of symptoms

proble areas are identified

Question 12

what do cut approaches include?

Answer 12

belief modification
focusing and reattribution
normalising

Question 13

what is belief modification

where delusional thinking is challenged 0

Answer 13

where delusional thinking is directly challenged looking at the evidence for the delusions and testing them against reality

Question 14

what is focusing and reattribution?

Answer 14

looks at auditory hallucinations to reduce the frequency of voices and reduce distress

Question 15

how are auditory hallucinations looked at in cbt?

Answer 15

through focusing and reattribution

Question 16

what is looked at in terms of auditory hallucinations?

Answer 16

physical aspects such as tone frquency
then the content what they are saying
thoughts and feelings about the voices

Question 17

what is the aim in looking at focusing and reattribution?

Answer 17

to show that the voices ar self generated

Question 18

what is the normalising stage?

Answer 18

looking at the disorder in a rational way
looking into stressful events in order to find an alternative explanation
psychotic symptoms are looked at as more normal to educe distress

Question 19

how is distress reduced in the normalising stage

Answer 19

psychotic symptoms are looked at as more normal

Question 20

which stage looks at relaxation techniques?

Answer 20

normalising stage

Question 21

what is an ethical weakness of cbt?

Answer 21

it can be very distressing
can blame the patient for their own disorder
question sanity

Question 22

what is a an ethical strength?

Answer 22

collaboration between therapist and patient
build relationship that is non threatening making patient feel safe
power to patient

Question 23

what did zimmerman find?

Answer 23

that cbt was effective alongside drug therapy for people

Question 24

what did bradshaw find?

Answer 24

that cbt was effective in treating schizophrenia of a women

0-60 hospital treatments

Question 25

a strength compared to drugs?

Answer 25

no side effects

Question 26

how is evidence for cbt collected how is this a weakness?

Answer 26

through self report data such as questionnaires and re and post score
social desirability

Question 27

what did lewis found?

Answer 27

no signifincat different for positive symptoms such as auditory hallucinations