6. cognitive behaviour therapy

S-5. N-12

= 2, its not significant because the critical value is smaller than the S-value. So we accept the null hypothesis and reject the alternate hypothesis

CBT

  • identifying the way we think and behave and challenging them

  • Main type of psychological treatment used for schizophrenia

  • Work collaboratively with a trained therapist

  • Lasts 6 weeks- 6 months

  1. Initial assessment

  2. Establish a therapeutic collaboration

  3. Psychoeducation

  4. Identifying and challenging faulty/ irrational thought using reality testing

  5. Goal setting

  6. Homework, and plan for relapse

  • pains in stomach, increased with stress

  • Sweating and shortness of breath with an increase amount of pan

  • Delusion - pain caused by a special communication device that had been implanted by her ex husband

  • Hallucinations - hearing his voice in her head. Believed if she didn’t agree with the voice then the sensor would kill her by exiting her body through her stomach

  • Her psychotic symptoms had developed around the same time she had been diagnosed with IBS

  • Also occurred after she had a messy divorce from an intense relationship with an abusive husband

Not suitable for all patients, requires active involvement

Less side effects in comparison to drug therapy

Costly for each session and the training is expensive

Evidence - Pontillo found reductions in frequency and severity of auditory hallucinations