Addressing the treatment of serious mental disorders using cognitive behavioural methods, this volume covers the theories, models and practice of cognitive therapy with psychotic patients. It examines the assessment, formulation and treatment methods for a range of disorders, mainly schizophrenic and personality disorders, and includes case studies and treatment experience in a variety of settings. Early interventions, adolescent problems, work with the elderly and uncommunicative patients are dealt with in several chapters.
Addressing the treatment of serious mental disorders using cognitive behavioural methods, this volume covers the theories, models and practice of cognitive therapy with psychotic patients. It examines the assessment, formulation and treatment methods for a range of disorders, mainly schizophrenic and personality disorders, and includes case studies and treatment experience in a variety of settings. Early interventions, adolescent problems, work with the elderly and uncommunicative patients are dealt with in several chapters.
Psychotherapeutic and Cognitive-behavioral Treatments for
Schizophrenia: Developing a Disorder-specific Form of Psychotherapy
for Persons with Psychosis (L. Davidson, et al.).
Defining the Concept of Individual Vulnerability as a Base for
Psychotherapeutic Interventions (C. Perris).
When the Going Gets Tough: Cognitive Therapy for the Severely
Disturbed (T. Vallis).
The Assessment of Dysfunctional Working Models of Self and Others
in Severely Disturbed Patients: A Preliminary Cross-National Study
(C. Perris, et al.).
State-of-the-Art Approaches in the Treatment of
Information-Processing Disorders in Schizophrenia (B. Hodel & H.
Brenner).
Cognitive-behavioural Coping-Orientated Therapy for Schizophrenia:
A New Treatment Model for Clinical Service and Research (A.
Schaub).
Options and Clinical Decision Making in the Assessment and
Psychological Treatment of Persistent Hallucinations and Delusions
(L. Yusupoff & G. Haddock).
Understanding the Inexplicable: An Individually Formulated
Cognitive Approach to Delusional Beliefs (D. Fowler, et al.).
Pathogeny and Therapy (S. Sassaroli & R. Lorenzini).
Early Intervention in Psychotic Disorders: A Critical Step in the
Prevention of Psychological Morbidity (J. Edwards & P.
McGorry).
An Integrated, Multilevels, Metacognitive Approach to the Treatment
of Patients with a Schizophrenic Disorder or a Severe Personality
Disorder (C. Perris & L. Skagerlind).
Preventively-Orientated Psychological Interventions in Early
Psychosis (P. McGorry, et al.).
The Grief of Mental Illness: Context for the Cognitive Therapy of
Schizophrenia (V. Lafond).
A Systematic Cognitive Therapy Approach to Schizo-Affective
Psychosis (D. Turkington & D. Kingdon).
Cognitive-behavioral Approaches to the Treatment of Personality
Disorders (J. Pretzer).
The Assessment of Personality Disorder: Selected Issues and
Directions (H. Jackson).
Less Common Therapeutic Strategies and Techniques in the Cognitive
Psychotherapy of Severely Disturbed Patients (H. Perris).
Metacognition and Motivational Systems in Psychotherapy: A
Cognitive-evolutionary Approach to the Treatment of Difficult
Patients (G. Liotti & B. Intreccialagli).
A Cognitive-behavioural Approach to the Understanding and
Management of Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder (M.
Kyrios).
Interpersonal Process in the Treatment of Narcissistic Personality
Disorders (E. Peyton & J. Safran).
Cognitive Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Personality Disorders
in the Elderly (L. Bizzini).
Indexes.
Carlo Perris, MD, has been the Director, World Health Organization, Professor of Psychiatry and Head, Department of Psychiatry Umea University Hospital Umea, Sweden. Patrick Dennistoun McGorry AO FAA FASSA FAHMS FRCP FRANZCP is an Irish-born Australian psychiatrist known for his development of the early intervention services for emerging mental disorders in young people.
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