Tailoring cognitive behavioural therapy to subtypes of voice-hearing

Frontiers in Psychology

Charles eFernyhough¹  Ben eAlderson-Day¹  David eSmailes¹  Guy eDodgson³  Simon eMcCarthy-Jones⁴ 

[1] Durham University;Leeds Trinity University;Northumberland, Tyne, and Wear NHS Foundation Trust;Trinity College Dublin;

关键词: Hallucinations;    Schizophrenia;    psychosis;    cognitive behavioural therapy;    voice-hearing;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01933

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for voice-hearing (i.e., auditory verbal hallucinations; AVH) has, at best, small-to-moderate effects. One possible reason for this limited efficacy is that current CBT approaches tend to conceptualise voice-hearing as a homogenous experience in terms of the cognitive processes involved in AVH. However, the highly heterogeneous nature of voice-hearing suggests that many different cognitive processes may be involved in the etiology of AVH. These heterogeneous voice-hearing experiences do, however, appear to cluster into a set of subtypes, opening up the possibility of tailoring treatment to the subtype of AVH that a voice-hearer reports. In this paper, we (a) outline our rationale for tailoring CBT to subtypes of voice-hearing, (b) describe CBT for three putative subtypes of AVH (inner speech-based AVH, memory-based AVH, and hypervigilance AVH), and (c) discuss potential limitations and problems with such an approach. We conclude by arguing that tailoring CBT to subtypes of voice-hearing could prove to be a valuable therapeutic development, which may be especially effective when used in early intervention in psychosis services.

【 授权许可】

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