Cognitive Behavioural Therapy For Psychosis

Question 1

Define CBT

Answer 1

A way of treating and challenging thinking in mental illnesses.

Question 2

What two approaches is CBTp based upon?

Answer 2

Cognitive approach and behavioural approach.

Question 3

How many sessions of CBT on average to schizophrenics have?

Answer 3

16

Question 4

What does CBTp help schizophrenics work on?

Answer 4

Identify and correct faulty interpretations.

Question 5

How is CBT better carried out?

Answer 5

1-1

Question 6

How does CBTp work?

Answer 6

Assess issues and symptoms and then aim to improve those issues.

Question 7

What is used to help CBT work?

Answer 7

The ABC model

Question 8

What does the A stand for in the ABC model?

Answer 8

Activating event - explore, explain and work through examples. Explaining how stress is maintained.

Question 9

What does the B stand for within the ABC model?

Answer 9

Belief

Question 10

What does the C stand for within the ABC model?

Answer 10

Consequences

Question 11

What 3 outcomes are desired within CBT?

Answer 11

Normalisation
Critical collaborative analysis
Developing an alternate explanation

Question 12

Define what is meant by normalisation

Answer 12

Psychosis is seen to be accepted

Question 13

Define what is meant by critical collaborative analysis

Answer 13

The patient and the therapist work with one another in order to explore their symptoms

Question 14

Define what is meant by developing alternative explanations

Answer 14

Patients are given a different way to think and behave from their symptoms

Question 15

Name somebody who carried research out into CBTp

Answer 15

Tarrier et al

Question 16

Explain Tarrier et al’s research into CBTp

Answer 16

Aim: do patients in CBTp do better than with just drugs
Procedure: compared drugs only and CBT patients
Findings:
50% reduction in a combination
0% in drugs
15% in cancelling
Conclusion: Drugs aren’t effective on their own