Emotional regulation as a mediating variable between risk of psychosis and common mental health problems in adolescents.

The main clinical high-risk of psychosis (CHRp) approaches are focused on core features of schizophrenia that might surface in the prodromal phases, mainly psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) (e.g., prodromal or schizotypal symptoms) or associated phenomena like basic symptoms or anomalous experiences of the self.

Preventive interventions for children and adolescents of parents with mental illness: A systematic review.

Background: Children of parents with mental disorders have a relatively high risk of developing a mental illness or behavioural disorder.

Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the efficacy of preventive psychotherapeutic interventions in children of parents with mental illness. In particular, the development of mental illness and/or psychological symptomatology in this population was assessed.

A new Algorithm for Detecting Clinical High Risk of Psychosis in Adolescents.

Background: The delimitation of the clinical high risk of psychosis (CHRp) is characterized by the wide variety of symptoms assessed from different approaches from the onset of psychosis. This study aimed to create a systematic procedure for an effective and accurate earlydetection of CHRp in educational settings.

Method: A representative sample of 1,824 adolescents (average age, 15.

Rethinking Schizophrenia in the Context of the Person and Their Circumstances: Seven Reasons.

We know a great deal about schizophrenia, but the current state of the art is one of uncertainty. Researchers are confused, and patients feel misunderstood. This situation has been identified as due largely to the fact that the dominant neurobiological perspective leaves out the person.

Measuring stages of recovery from psychosis.

Background: Mental health consumers invite us to abandon the pathology model, which is tied to pessimism, and instead to embrace a model of personal recovery that goes beyond being free from symptoms, and involves self-management of the illness. The Stages of Recovery Instrument (STORI) is a measure developed from the perspective of consumers according to a conceptual five-stage model of recovery.

Aims: The main aim of this work was to study the psychometric properties of the STORI, but we also set out to compare the stages of recovery in our sample with the five-stage model in the sample with which the scale was developed.

Person-based contextual therapy applied to a complex case of schizophrenia.

Background: Psychological therapies are becoming more and more important in schizophrenia, and not as mere adjuncts to medication. The psychotherapy of schizophrenia is taking on a new lease of life in the wake of person-based phenomenological and psychological developments.

Method: The case in question was a complex one, with variegated symptomatology that had persisted over many years.

The role of magical thinking in hallucinations. Comparisons of clinical and non-clinical groups.

Background: Magical thinking consists of accepting the possibility that events that, according to the causal concepts of a culture, cannot have any causal relationship, but might somehow nevertheless have one. Magical thinking has been related to both obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizophrenia.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of magical thinking in hallucinations of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Dissociative experiences as mediators between childhood trauma and auditory hallucinations.

The purpose of this work was to study the relationship between reported traumatic experiences in childhood and positive psychotic symptoms. We hypothesized that dissociative experiences were potential mediators between childhood trauma and hallucinations, but not delusions. The sample comprised 71 patients diagnosed with psychoses.

Relationship of metacognition, absorption, and depersonalization in patients with auditory hallucinations.

Objectives: The purpose of this work was to study the relationship of metacognition, absorption, and depersonalization in hallucinating patients.

Design: A within-subjects correlational design was employed.

Methods: We formed four groups from a clinical population (schizophrenic patients with hallucinations, schizophrenic patients with no hallucinations but with delusions, schizophrenic patients recovered from positive symptoms, and patients with a non-psychotic psychiatric disorder) and a non-clinical control group.

Depersonalization as a mediator in the relationship between self-focused attention and auditory hallucinations.

The purpose of this work was to study the potentially mediating role of certain dissociative factors, such as depersonalization, between self-focused attention and auditory hallucinations. A total of 59 patients diagnosed with schizophrenic disorder completed a self-focused attention scale ( M. F.

New life for schizophrenia psychotherapy in the light of phenomenology.

Recent contributions to the theoretical conception and empirical evaluation of schizophrenia in the light of phenomenology are opening the way to new perspectives in psychotherapy. The phenomenological conception understands schizophrenia as a disturbance of the basic sense of selfhood (ipseity) characterized by hyper-reflexivity and diminished sense of self. Evaluation consists of examining the anomalous self-experience in a series of domains, which makes the conception presented operable.

Symptomatic and functional outcome in youth at ultra-high risk for psychosis: a longitudinal study.

The current report assesses the clinical, functioning and demographic data of a cohort enrolled in the P3 prevention program for psychosis; a Spanish National Health System and Ministry of Science funded program. Comparisons are made between those individuals who had converted to psychosis and those who had not at 3years after an average of 24 treatment sessions. Subjects included 61 participants meeting Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes criteria, with ages ranging from 17 to 31, and all meeting criteria for ultra-high risk of psychosis.

Changing relationship with voices: new therapeutic perspectives for treating hallucinations.

A growing body of research on verbal hallucinations shows the importance of beliefs about and relationships with the voices for their pathological course. In particular, beliefs about the omnipotence of the voices and the need to control them, and relationships with them that involve efforts to resist or fight them, have shown themselves to be more pathogenic than effective. Likewise, treatments aimed at eliminating the voices, be they based on medication or 'traditional' cognitive-behavioural therapy, have not always been successful.