CBTp

Question 1

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis

Answer 1

Allows schizophrenics to acknowledge alternative explanations for how they feel. - identify and correct faulty interpretations

Question 2

How CBTp can be used in treatment

Answer 2

1. Assessment- discuss symptoms and origins
2. Engagement- patient’s perspective
3. ABC model - beliefs - rationalised, disputed, changed
4. Normalisation- placed on continuum
5. Critical Collaborative Analysis- questioning- help understand illogical thinking
6. Alternative Explanations- for previous unhealthy ways

Question 3

The nature of CBTp

Answer 3

•Patient trace symptoms of how they developed
•evaluate & consider ways to test validity
•set assignments to improve functions
•learning of maladaptive responses
•patient develops own alternatives

Question 4

Evaluation of CBTp

Answer 4

+effective compared to standard
- not appropriate for all patients
- limited by availability and willingness
- methodological flaws