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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Nightmares for Patients with Persecutory Delusions (Nites): An Assessor-Blind, Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
(2019-05)
Objective:Nightmares are relatively common in patients experiencing psychosis but rarely assessed or treated. Nightmares may maintain persecutory delusions by portraying fears in sensory-rich detail. We tested the potential ...
Measuring reasoning in paranoia: Development of the Fast and Slow Thinking Questionnaire
(2020-07)
Paranoid thoughts are common across the psychosis continuum. It is well established that reasoning biases (conceived as an overreliance on fast thinking and lack of willingness and/or ability to engage in slow thinking) ...
Parenting behaviour and paranoia: a network analysis and results from the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescents (NCS-A)
(2020-08)
Method
We examined cross-sectional associations of parenting and paranoia in an epidemiologically representative cohort of 10,148 adolescents (National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescents; NCS-A) and a second dataset of 1286 ...
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. ...
Paranoia in patients attending child and adolescent mental health services
(2021-01)
OBJECTIVE: Paranoia may be particularly prevalent during adolescence, building on the heightened social vulnerabilities at this age. Excessive mistrust may be corrosive for adolescent social relationships, especially in ...
Effects of SlowMo, a Blended Digital Therapy Targeting Reasoning, on Paranoia Among People With Psychosis A Randomized Clinical Trial
(2021-04)
IMPORTANCE Persistent paranoia is common among patients with psychosis.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis can be effective. However, challenges
in engagement and effectiveness remain.
OBJECTIVE To investigate ...
Digitally supported CBT to reduce paranoia and improve reasoning for people with schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis: the SlowMo RCT
(2021-08)
Background: Reasoning may play a causal role in paranoid delusions in psychosis. SlowMo, a new digitally supported cognitive–behavioural therapy, targets reasoning to reduce paranoia.
Objectives: To examine the effectiveness ...
Virtual reality clinical-experimental tests of compassion treatment techniques to reduce paranoia
(2020-05)
Paranoia may build on negative beliefs held both about the self and others. Compassionate imagery may be one way of reducing such negative beliefs, and hence paranoia. Two studies tested this idea, one targeting compassion ...
The service user experience of SlowMo therapy: A co-produced thematic analysis of service users' subjective experience
(2022-04)
Objectives: SlowMo is the first blended digital therapy for paranoia, showing significant small-moderate reductions in paranoia in a recent large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT). This study explored the subjective ...
Body image concerns in patients with persecutory delusions
(2022-04)
Background: Persecutory fears build on feelings of vulnerability that arise from negative views of the self. Body image concerns have the potential to be a powerful driver of feelings of vulnerability. Body image concerns ...