Self-attacking and self-reassurance in persecutory delusions: a comparison of healthy, depressed and paranoid individuals.

Previous research has found that reduced self-reassurance and heightened verbal 'self-attacking' of a sadistic and persecutory nature are both associated with greater subclinical paranoia. Whether these processes are also linked to clinical paranoia remains unclear. To investigate this further, we asked 15 people with persecutory delusions, 15 people with depression and 19 non-psychiatric controls to complete several self-report questionnaires assessing their forms and functions of self-attacking.

Think Effectively About Mood Swings (TEAMS): a case series of cognitive-behavioural therapy for bipolar disorders.

Background And Objectives: An integrative cognitive model for bipolar disorder proposes that multiple and extreme appraisals of changes in internal state and their reciprocal impact on behaviour, physiology and the environment provide the core mechanism in maintaining and escalating bipolar symptoms (Mansell, Morrison, Reid, Lowens, & Tai, 2007a).

Methods: A case series of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) based on this model, known as the TEAMS approach (Think Effectively About Mood Swings), with seven participants was conducted. An A-B direct replication design with multiple baseline and follow-up assessments at one, three and six months was used.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy and motivational intervention for schizophrenia and substance misuse. 18-month outcomes of a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Comorbid substance misuse in people with schizophrenia is associated with poor clinical and social outcomes. There are few studies of psychological treatments for this population and little long-term follow-up of their benefits.

Aims: To investigate symptom, substance use, functioning and health economy outcomes for patients with schizophrenia and their carers 18 months after a cognitive-behavioural treatment (CBT) programme.

Staff expressed emotion and causal attributions for client problems on a low security unit: an exploratory study.

This is an exploratory study that sought to investigate a number of measures of staff-patient relationships on a continuing care, low security inpatient facility for patients with severe mental illness. Twenty staff members were assessed for expressed emotion (EE) using the Camberwell Family Interview (CFI) in regard to a client for whom they were a designated key worker. Their spontaneous attributions for the patient's problems were also assessed, along with self-report staff and patient ratings of their expressed and perceived feelings and thoughts about their staff or patient counterpart.

Effect of emotional salience on thought disorder in patients with schizophrenia.

Background: This study examined the effect of emotional salience on the severity of thought disorder in schizophrenic patients.

Method: Ten thought disordered and ten non-thought disordered schizophrenic patients were interviewed under two conditions: a personal interview involving material which was emotionally salient and an impersonal interview involving material which was not emotionally salient.

Results: Both groups exhibited some thought disorder during both interviews.