This book offers a new approach to understanding and treating psychotic symptoms using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). CBT for Psychosis shows how this approach clears the way for a shift away from a biological understanding and towards a psychological understanding of psychosis.

Stressing the important connection between mental illness and mental health, further topics of discussion include:

• the assessment and formulation of psychotic symptoms
• how to treat psychotic symptoms using CBT
• CBT for specific and co-morbid conditions
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Written specifically with sufferers and carers in mind, to help them understand and apply the basic concepts of cognitive therapy for psychosis. Illustrates what it is like to have common psychosis and how people's lives can be restored using therapy. Increases understanding of how the psychosis started, and the factors that worsen symptoms or increase the likelihood of relapse. Helps the sufferer learn how to control symptoms and delay or prevent relapse. Includes features and exercises to help sufferers explore their own beliefs and feelings to reflect on the way they cope. Helps carers...