CBT

• What is the type of CBT offered to people with schizophrenia called?

  Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp)
• How often does CBTp usually take place?

  Once every ten days
• How many sessions does CBTp typically involve?

  12-16 sessions
• In what settings can CBTp be performed?

  Individually or in a group setting
• What is the main psychological treatment used with schizophrenia?

  Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp)
• What does NICE recommend for all patients with schizophrenia?

  They should be offered CBTp
• What is usually prescribed first to enable CBT to be more effective?

  Antipsychotic drugs
• What does CBT involve patients trying to change?

  Irrational thoughts into more rational ones
• What role does the therapist play in CBTp?

  Provides empathy and proposes alternative theories
• Why is it important to consider alternative theories in CBTp?

  To help patients feel less threatened
• What can hallucinations and delusions be for the patient?

  Very scary
• What is encouraged for patients to test in CBTp?

  The validity of their faulty thoughts
• What does CBT ideally help the patient to do?

  Come up with their own alternatives to faulty delusions
• What are the key components of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp)?

  • Offered to people with schizophrenia
  • Takes place once every ten days
  • Involves 12-16 sessions
  • Can be individual or group therapy
  • Aims to change irrational thoughts
  • Uses empathy and alternative theories
  • Encourages testing the validity of thoughts
• how is Ellis ABC model used

  to change their irrational belief into a rational one to provide a more adaptive behavioral consequence