Browsing Conditions, Lifestyle Factors & Interventions by Subject "Psychosis"
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Acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis: Current status, lingering questions and future directions.
(2023-06)Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for psychosis (ACTp) is a contextual behavioural intervention that promotes psychological flexibility by fostering active acceptance, cognitive defusion, values construction and committed ... -
Adapted CBT to Stabilize Sleep on Psychiatric Wards: a Transdiagnostic Treatment Approach
(2018-04-04)Background: Almost all patients admitted at acute crisis to a psychiatric ward experience clinically significant symptoms of insomnia. Ward environments pose challenges to both sleep and the delivery of therapy. Despite ... -
Adapting cognitive behavioural therapy for adolescents with psychosis: insights from the Managing Adolescent first episode in psychosis study (MAPS)
(2022-01)Background: Onset of psychosis commonly occurs in adolescence, and long-term prognosis can be poor. There is growing evidence, largely from adult cohorts, that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) and ... -
Anticipatory Pleasure in Current Psychosis: Cognitive and Emotional Correlates
(2020-12)Anticipation of pleasure – a key aspect of hedonic experience - is a motivating factor for engaging in activities. Low levels of anticipatory pleasure and activity are found in individuals with psychosis. Cognitive factors ... -
Appraisal of patient-level health economic models of severe mental illness: systematic review
(2021-08)Healthcare decision makers require accurate long-term economic models to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of new mental health interventions. Aims To assess the suitability of current patient-level economic models to ... -
Attitudes to physical healthcare in severe mental illness; a patient and mental health clinician qualitative interview study
(2020-11)People with severe mental illness experience physical health significantly worse than the general population. Physical health monitoring is shared between primary care and secondary mental healthcare services, though there ... -
Autoimmune psychosis: an international consensus on an approach to the diagnosis and management of psychosis of suspected autoimmune origin
(2019-10)There is increasing recognition in the neurological and psychiatric literature of patients with so-called isolated psychotic presentations (ie, with no, or minimal, neurological features) who have tested positive for ... -
Automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive therapy for patients with psychosis: study protocol for a single-blind parallel group randomised controlled trial (gameChange).
(2019-08)Introduction Many patients with psychosis experience everyday social situations as anxiety-provoking. The fears can arise, for example, from paranoia, hallucinations, social anxiety or negative-self beliefs. The fears lead ... -
Automated virtual reality therapy to treat agoraphobic avoidance and distress in patients with psychosis (gameChange): a multicentre, parallel-group, single-blind, randomised, controlled trial in England with mediation and moderation analyses
(2022-04)Automated delivery of psychological therapy using immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) might greatly increase the availability of effective help for patients. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of an automated ... -
“A blank canvas of me”: an interpretive phenomenological analysis study of the experience of client self-disclosure in cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis
(2021-02)Background: Client disclosure of emotionally salient information to a therapist may be an important factor in the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp). The present study explores how people ... -
Brain glutamate concentration in men with early psychosis: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy case–control study at 7 T
(2021-06)Abnormalities in glutamate neurotransmission are linked to psychotic symptoms and cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) provides an acceptable means of measuring glutamate in the ... -
Chronic psychosocial stressors are associated with alterations in salience processing and corticostriatal connectivity.
(2018-12-17)Psychosocial stressors including childhood adversity, migration, and living in an urban environment, have been associated with several psychiatric disorders, including psychotic disorders. The neural and psychological ... -
Cognitive appraisals of dissociation in psychosis: a new brief measure
(2020-12)Background: Catastrophic cognitive appraisals, similar to those in anxiety disorders, are implicated in depersonalisation, a form of dissociation. No scales exist to measure appraisals of dissociative experiences. ... -
Cognitive Behavioural Therapies for Psychosis
(2019-10)Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is a recommended treatment in several international guidelines for schizophrenia and psychosis. CBTp is an adaptation of traditional cognitive behavioural therapy for ... -
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis
(2023-04)Cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is an evidence-based and flexible therapeutic approach to support clients to meet their goals. The appraisal of anomalous experiences, such as voice hearing, is given a ... -
A compassionate imagery intervention for patients with persecutory delusions
(2021-06)Negative beliefs about the self, including low self-compassion, have been identified as a putative causal factor in the occurrence of paranoia. Therefore, improving self-compassion may be one route to reduce paranoia. Aims: To ... -
Cost and quality-of-life impacts of community treatment orders (CTOs) for patients with psychosis: economic evaluation of the OCTET trial
(2020-07)Purpose:Current RCT and meta-analyses have not found any effect of community treatment orders (CTOs) on hospital or social outcomes. Assumed positive impacts of CTOs on quality-of-life outcomes and reduced hospital costs ... -
Developing a guided imagery intervention in consultation with service users
(2019-12)Guided imagery interventions have a range of applications to affect emotion, thought and behaviour. They may be effectively used by staff with minimal training and are simple and quick to use. Service user involvement ... -
Developing an automated VR cognitive treatment for psychosis: gameChange VR therapy
(2020-04)The automated delivery of psychological treatment using virtual reality (VR) has the potential to revolutionise patient access to evidence-based care. VR creates immersive, interactive computer simulations, which elicit ... -
Development and initial evaluation of a behavioural intervention to support weight management for people with serious mental illness: an uncontrolled feasibility and acceptability study
(2023-03)The rates of obesity and associated health problems are higher in people with serious mental illness (SMI), such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, than the general population. A primary care referral to a behavioural ...