More Optimistic Recovery Attitudes Are Associated with Less Stigmatization of People with Mental Illness among Healthcare Professionals Working on Acute and Semi-Acute Psychiatric Wards.

Stigmatization towards individuals with mental illness is common among mental healthcare professionals, yet poses a key concern regarding the provision of effective support and therapy for those undergoing psychiatric treatment. In this study, we examined to what extent recovery attitudes among mental healthcare professionals are associated with stigmatization. We conducted a survey among staff members (n = 110) of a large psychiatric hospital working on acute or semi-acute wards one year following a multi-professional training session, which included the promotion of recovery orientation as a therapeutic approach.

[Psychotherapy of psychotic disorders].

Psychotherapy of psychotic disorders Abstract. The efficacy of psychotherapy for individuals with psychotic disorders is well documented and its implementation is recommended by international guidelines. Goals of psychotherapeutic interventions are reduction of symptoms, prevention of relapse, improvement of cognitive, emotional and social functioning, social integration and participation, and enhancement of quality of life as well as self-perception.

Expressive suppression is associated with state paranoia in psychosis: An experience sampling study on the association between adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and paranoia.

Objectives: Although emotional instability and problems in emotion regulation (ER) are known to be linked to the formation and maintenance of psychosis and paranoia, it remains unclear whether the use of specific ER strategies is associated with it. The first aim of the study was to explore the association between emotional instability and paranoia. The second and third aims were to investigate whether the use of maladaptive ER strategies leads to paranoia in patients with psychosis in daily life and whether the use of more adaptive ER strategies reduces paranoia.

The lonely road to paranoia. A path-analytic investigation of loneliness and paranoia.

Loneliness and paranoia are related, but the mechanisms that link them to each other remain unclear. Systematic reviews on loneliness propose a social-cognitive model in which loneliness leads to negative evaluations of other persons and a lack of interpersonal trust. However, the data discussed in these reviews are based on healthy individuals.

The impact of loneliness on paranoia: An experimental approach.

Background And Objectives: Loneliness is a common problem in patients with schizophrenia, and may be particularly linked with persecutory ideation. Nevertheless, its role as a potential risk factor in the formation and maintenance of persecutory delusions is largely unexplored.

Methods: Loneliness was experimentally manipulated using a false-feedback paradigm in a non-clinical sample (n = 60).

Explaining attitudes and adherence to antipsychotic medication: the development of a process model.

Although nonadherence to antipsychotic medication poses a threat to outcome of medical treatment, the processes preceding the intake behavior have not been investigated sufficiently. This study tests a process model of medication adherence derived from the Health Belief Model which is based on cost-benefit considerations. The model includes an extensive set of potential predictors for medication attitudes and uses these attitudes as a predictor for medication adherence.