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Staying Well After Psychosis: A Cognitive Interpersonal Approach to Recovery and Relapse Prevention
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Product Description
"Staying Well After Psychosis is extremely readable, based on solid research evidence and packed full of clinical insights and strategies that will satisfy any clinician seeking innovative approaches to the promotion of recovery from psychosis."
—Anthony P. Morrison, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester, UK
Over the past decade our understanding of the experience of psychosis has changed dramatically. As part of this change, a range of psychological models of psychosis and associated interventions have developed.
Staying Well After Psychosis presents an individually based psychological intervention targeting emotional recovery and relapse prevention. This approach considers the cognitive, interpersonal and developmental aspects involved in recovery and vulnerability to the recurrence of psychosis.
Andrew Gumley and Matthias Schwannauer provide a framework for recovery and staying well that focuses on emotional and interpersonal adaptation to psychosis. This practical manual covers, in detail, all aspects of the therapeutic process of Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy, including:
- Taking a developmental perspective on help seeking and affect regulation.
- Supporting self–reorganisation and adaptation after acute psychosis.
- Understanding and treating traumatic reactions to psychosis.
- Working with humiliation, entrapment, loss and fear of recurrence appraisals during recovery.
- Working with cognitive interpersonal schemata.
- Developing coping in an interpersonal context.
Clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and mental health professionals will find this innovative treatment manual to be a valuable resource in their work with adults and adolescents. This book will also be of interest to lecturers and students of clinical psychology and mental health.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #132336 in Books
- Published on: 2006-01-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 308 pages
Editorial Reviews
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…extends our understanding of psychosis…extremely helpful for therapists working with psychotic patients who are at risk of relapse. (Behaviour and Cognitive Psychotherapy, May 2007)
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…extends our understanding of psychosis…extremely helpful for therapists working with psychotic patients who are at risk of relapse. (Behaviour and Cognitive Psychotherapy, May 2007)
Customer Reviews
Useful but a little overstated
This is a useful new book on the topic of relapse and I believe that clinicians new to the area would benefit from many interesting sections. However claims such as; "there has been no book, until now, that addresses the issue of relapse specifically" is overstated and not really backed by the evidence. Equally, the book lacks focus on client involvement in their own relapse prevention and a resource in the form of an actual handbook for clients would be helpful, and necessary, as it is my experience that most clients want, and benefit from, a written/permanent record of their insights and coping strategies. I believe this a useful book but the claims it makes for itself are a bit overstated and it lack a practicality for clinical practice seen in other publications on the topic of relapse in psychoses.
practical and insightful
This manual is extremely readable and provides good insights in the clinical work with this challenging client group.
I found this handbook most useful in considering developmental aspects of severe mental health problems and it allowed me to make clients' relationships a lot more central in our treatments. Not just anothet CBT manual for psychosis.
An essential addition to your library
This is an extremely helpful text for anyone working therapeutically with psychosis. It is very strong theoretically and contributes clearly to an understanding of psychosis within the context of attachment theory, in particular. It offers rich case examples, for example illustrating how it is possible to build a therapeutic alliance and come to a joint understanding of someone's difficulties even when they are experiencing acute paranoia. An understanding of a person's paranoia, delusions, or hallucinations within their life context is made explicit as well as a wealth of examples as to how these can be worked with so that the person is able to recover a meaningful life and their distress minimised. I highly recommend this book.
