CBT Approach to Mental Health Problems in Psychosis

Dr Emma Williams, BSc (Liverpool), MPhil (Edinburgh), PhD (Liverpool) is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. She has worked with people with psychosis for over 20 years. Her interests are in the promotion of understanding and development of treatments with an ethical foundation, in order to improve the acceptability and efficacy of NHS provision for people with psychosis. She has lectured both nationally and internationally and taught on Clinical Psychology training courses in England and Scotland. She has published widely including two previous books with Speechmark, Anger Control Training with Rebecca Barlow (1998) and Interventions for Schizophrenia (2004). She lives and works in Oxfordshire.

• About the author iv  Acknowledgements v  Introduction 1  1 Stress and psychosis 5  2 Negative symptoms 27  3 Social anxiety disorder and psychosis 59  4 Obsessional compulsive disorder and psychosis 73  5 Post- traumatic stress disorder and psychosis 93  6 Mood disturbance in psychosis 117  Appendix 141  References 151  Index 159