Main description:

This book shows how psychological and social interventions can help people with psychosis. It brings together both theoretical chapters that contribute to the reconceptualization of psychosis and clinical cases illustrating how contemporary psychotherapeutic intervention models can be applied in the treatment of this mental health condition, with reflections, strategies and practical guidelines demonstrating how these models can inform professional practice in mental healthcare.

Chapters brought together in this volume aim to reflect a paradigm shift in psychosis care. They present person-centered models that lead to a way of seeing, understanding and treating psychosis that is very different from the traditional biomedical model. Current authors and approaches are revolutionizing an outdated model trapped in purely pharmacological actions and tautological explanations of a biological nature, where symptom control is the basic and fundamental form of approach, and in which psychotherapeutic actions take second place as subsidiary to the former. Approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Acceptance and Recovery Therapy by Levels, Open Dialogue, Compassion-Centered Therapy or the Hearing Voices movement, to name but a few of those presented in this book, represent a journey of self-knowledge and learning for those recovering from psychosis, and have an intense transformative potential for the therapeutic team.

The fundamental principle that guides this book is to share models belonging to psychology that aim at personal development while respecting the needs, values and goals of each person, and that can be adopted by any professional or student of clinical psychology, psychiatry, nursing, social work or any other discipline searching for more humanistic approaches to treat psychosis.

Contents:

Chapter 1 - Toward a change of paradigm in psychosis: A contextual phenomenological approachChapter 2 - Eppur si mouve

Chapter 3 - Rethinking Antipsychotics: Evidence-Based Medicine Calls for A Dramatic Change in Their Use

Chapter 4 - Psychosis pills do much more harm than good and should not be used

Chapter 5 - Advocating for integrated therapy in the social environment to treat schizophrenia problems

Chapter 6 - Contextualizing 'psychosis' behaviors and what to do about them

Chapter 7 - Culturally adapted CBT for psychosis

Chapter 8 - The Power Threat Meaning Framework & 'psychosis'

Chapter 9 - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis

Chapter 10 - Person-Based Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis

Chapter 11 - The phenomenological perspective and metacognitive psychotherapy in addressing psychosis

Chapter 12 - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Contextual therapy in the approach to psychosis

Chapter 13 - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Recovery from Psychosis

Chapter 14 - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for psychosis in an inpatient context

Chapter 15 - Using acceptance and commitment therapy within a functional analysis informed therapy for hearing voices

Chapter 16 - The use of Therapist Self-Disclosure in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis

Chapter 17 - Acceptance and Recovery Therapy by levels for Psychosis (ART). A context-centred model

Chapter 18 - About hobbits, jedi, goddesses and magical energies. Clinical cases from ART

Chapter 19 - Psychosocial rehabilitation: An art approach. Clinical cases

Chapter 20 - The "incluyete" (get involved) program: A socio-educational experience for social inclusion in mental health

Chapter 21 - Attention Centred on what is Important for the Person (ACIP) approach to a First-Episode Psychosis (FEP)

Chapter 22 - An approximation to a relational approach for psychosis: Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP)

Chapter 23 - Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) - Informed Interventions for Psychosis

Chapter 24 - Personality or psychosis, a complex binomial

Chapter 25 - Mindfulness and compassion as a path to recovery and personal discovery: A first-episode schizophrenia case study

Chapter 26 - Compassion Focused Therapy for Voices and Unusual Experiences

Chapter 27 - Clinical case: Compassion-focused therapy

Chapter 28 - The Wall of Disconnection

Chapter 29 - Learning to relate differently to hearing voices

Chapter 30 - Psychological intervention with relatives of patients with psychotic disorders

Chapter 31- Family intervention in psychosis: A case

Chapter 32 - The transformative power of the open dialogue approach In the mental health field

Chapter 33 - Raul: Be noise amidst the din, and silence in the murmur. Open dialogue and first episodes of Psychosis

Chapter 34 - Conflicted Stories. A case of expanded reality

Chapter 35 - Epiloge: Overcoming adversities