WORKING WITH PEOPLE AT HIGH RISK OF DEVELOPING PSYCHOSIS - A TREATMENT HANDBOOK

A timely overview of new psychological interventions in this exciting and emerging field, Working with People at High Risk of Developing Psychosis: A Treatment Handbook presents the most up-to-date progress in the identification of individuals who are at ultra high risk of developing a psychotic illness. The book focuses on a range of psychological interventions that are currently being developed, tested, and used in order to alleviate these early symptoms and attempt to delay or even prevent the onset of a psychotic illness. Even for those who will not go on to develop an illness, such interventions are helpful in the alleviation of their presenting symptoms. This practical treatment handbook addresses a wide range of issues presented by "at risk" clients. Specific chapters, written by experts in that particular area, cover stress management, co-morbidity, substance misuse, family work and group therapy.

Jean Addington completed her PhD at the University of Calgary, Alberta. She is currently Director of the PRIME Clinic and Director of Psychosocial Treatments in the First Episode Psychosis Program at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.

Shona M. Francey is a clinical psychologist with 20 years’ experience in public mental health. She began working in the field of early intervention for psychosis when the Early Psychosis Prevention and Intervention Centre (EPPIC) was first established in 1992 in Melbourne, Australia. Within the SPPIC programme she worked as a case manager, COPE therapist and Group Programme leader.

Anthony P. Morrison is a Reader in Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester and is also a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in a specialist programme of care for people with early psychosis in Salford and Trafford. He has published a number of articles on trauma and psychosis, cognitive therapy for psychosis and experimental studies of cognitive processes in psychosis, and has been involved in a number of treatment trials for cognitive therapy for early psychosis and the prevention of psychosis.

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1. Introduction (Shôn Lewis).

Chapter 2. Identification of the Population (Alison R Yung).

Chapter 3. Assessment and Developing a Formulation (Shona M. Francey and Henry J. Jackson).

Chapter 4. Engagement and the Therapeutic Alliance (Jean Addington and David Penn).

Chapter 5. Assessing and Managing Stress (Lisa Phillips).

Chapter 6. Treatment Targets in the Pre-Psychotic Phase (Paul Patterson, Amanda Skeate and Max Birchwood).

Chapter 7. Substance Use and the ‘At Risk’ Period (Steven Leicester).

Chapter 8. Addressing Attenuated Symptoms in At-Risk Clients (Samantha E. Bowe, Paul French, and Anthony P. Morrison).

Chapter 9. Brief Limited Intermittent Psychotic Symptoms (BLIPS): A Cognitive Behavioural Approach to Formulation and Intervention (Andrew I. Gumley).

Chapter 10. Working with Families Following the Diagnosis of an At Risk Mental State (April A. Collins and Jean Addington).

Chapter 11. Group Therapy for People at High Risk of Developing Psychosis (Andreas Bechdolf, Verena Veith and Joachim Klosterkötte).

Chapter 12. Future Challenges (Anthony P. Morrison, Shona M. Francey and Jean Addington).

Index.