Cognitive behavioural therapy plus standard care versus standard care plus other psychosocial treatments for people with schizophrenia.

Background: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a psychosocial treatment that aims to help individuals re-evaluate their appraisals of their experiences that can affect their level of distress and problematic behaviour. CBT is now recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as an add-on treatment for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Other psychosocial therapies that are often less expensive are also available as an add-on treatment for people with schizophrenia.

Eight decades of mortality in an English high-security hospital.

Background: Psychiatric patients are known to have poorer physical health than the general population and to have premature mortality, but the impact of institutional care on the physical health of patients is less clear.

Aims: This study aimed to compare mortality rates and causes of death between a high-security psychiatric hospital cohort and the general population in England for the periods 1920-1961 and 1972-2000.

Method: Data were obtained from various clinical and non-clinical archives and death certificates.

Cognitive behaviour therapy versus other psychosocial treatments for schizophrenia.

Background: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is now a recommended treatment for people with schizophrenia. This approach helps to link the person's distress and problem behaviours to underlying patterns of thinking.

Objectives: To review the effects of CBT for people with schizophrenia when compared with other psychological therapies.