Thought-stopping and flooding in a case of hallucinations, obsessions, and homicidal-suicidal behavior

Samaan, Makram

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“…Until recently, evidence concerning the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural treatments of psychosis could only be found in case reports and simple pre-post test designs (for example, [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]. Over the past 5 years, however, there have been several reports of controlled trials designed to evaluate cognitive-behavioural intervention packages or programs for psychosis ( Table I).…”

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Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis: A Status Report

Norman

Townsend

1999

Can J Psychiatry

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Section: How Effective Is Cbt For Psychosis?mentioning

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Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis: A Status Report

Norman

Townsend

1999

Can J Psychiatry

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“…There has been some evidence that thoughtstopping, a technique which was developed by Wolpe (1973) to treat intrusive thoughts, can also be used as a treatment for auditory hallucinations (Samaan, 1975;Allen, Halperin, & Friend, 1985;Lamontagne, Audet, & Elie, 1983). Samaan (1975) reported a successful intervention with a 42-year-old woman; a thought-stopping procedure resulted in the complete elimination of her hallucinations, and this was maintained at 20-month follow-up. A similar intervention by Lamontagne, Audet & Elie (1983) used thought-stopping procedures with 20 patients who suffered from paranoid thoughts and auditory hallucinations.…”

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Developments in Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy for Persistent Psychotic Symptoms

Haddock¹,

Sellwood²,

Tarrier³

et al. 1994

Behav. change

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This paper is a review of studies on psychological treatments for positive psychotic symptoms, and a detailed description of two of these studies, the Manchester Symptom Project, which aimed to decrease positive symptoms by training patients in effective coping strategies, and the Liverpool Auditory Hallucination project, which aimed to provide a cognitive-behavioural treatment for individuals with persistent and distressing voices. The results from these studies indicate that enduring positive symptoms which have not responded to neuroleptic medication can be effectively treated by psychological methods.

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“…hallucinations, delusions or negative symptoms. Early approaches were influenced more by the strictly behavioural psychology school, such as the use of contingency or reward approaches for reducing the occurrence of particular target behaviours (Nydegger, 1972;Haynes and Geddy, 1973), distraction procedures (Margo, Hemsley and Slade, 1981;James, 1983;Nelson et al, 1991), thought stopping (Samaan, 1975;Allen et al, 1983;) and the use of aversion therapy (Alford andTurner, 1976, Turner, Hersen andBellack, 1977). Whilst, successful reduction in the occurrence of target behaviours were frequently reported using these approaches, there was little evaluation of this type of approach in larger controlled trials and little evidence that the approaches generalised across situations or people (also see later section on contingency management).…”

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Psychological Treatment of Psychosis

Haddock¹,

Spaulding²

2010

Schizophrenia

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Psychological treatments for the treatment of psychosis have been widely studied over many years. Early studies were mainly in the form of individual case studies or case series. However, more recently, treatments have been evaluated in larger, controlled trials leading to a larger evidence base on which to judge their effectiveness for psychosis. This evidence bases suggests that certain approaches can be effective in reducing the severity and distress associated with psychosis and some of these have become more widely employed in the treatment of severe mental health problems over the last decade in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. Generally, the treatments with the greatest evidence base are in following treatment domains: 1) individual cognitive and behavioural therapies for psychosis, 2) family interventions for psychosis, 3) neuropsychological and cognitive remediation approaches, 4) social skills training and other skills training approaches and 5) contingency management approaches. Characteristics of the approaches are described, (using clinical examples) and evidence in support of their effectiveness is presented. The implications for applying the approaches with complex cases, such as those with dual diagnoses is described. Finally, the challenges facing services in implementing the approaches is discussed.

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Thought-stopping and flooding in a case of hallucinations, obsessions, and homicidal-suicidal behavior

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Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis: A Status Report

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis: A Status Report

Developments in Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy for Persistent Psychotic Symptoms

Psychological Treatment of Psychosis

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