How to apply ACT?

Emerging from cognitive behavioural traditions, mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies hold promise as new evidence-based approaches for helping people distressed by the symptoms of psychosis. These therapies emphasise changing the relationship with unusual and troublesome experiences through cultivating experiential openness, awareness, and engagement in actions based on personal values.


What is metacognitive therapy?

An Interview with Prof. Adrian Wells 


A handbook

Sommerbeck, Lisbeth (2003): The Client-Centred Therapist in Psychiatric Contexts: A therapists’guide to the psychiatric landscape and its inhabitants. PCCS Books.


Multi-Family Group Therapy

What is MFG?

Psychosis and multiple family group therapy, Eia Asen and Heiner Schuff. Asen has a somewhat different approach than Mc Farlane, mentioned below (les medical), but also a lot in common: shaping a community of people with the same problem.


What is psychosis from a psychodynamic perspective?

A way of thinking about realities

The intact mind is able to recognise and integrate the many realities a person has to contend with at any point in time.


 

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