Sentences with phrase «persistent psychotic symptoms»

Thus although individual CBT for persistent psychotic symptoms when added to medication may confer some modest benefits in reducing emotional distress, 2 and should continue to be offered, it is not efficacious in preventing further relapse among those recovering from a recent relapse.

This illness is usually associated with severe and persistent psychotic symptoms and there is increased brain loss (in gray matter).

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Reviews of cognitive behaviour therapy in schizophrenia indicate that evaluations are mainly case studies or uncontrolled trials.3 — 5 Four controlled trials have suggested that cognitive behavioural interventions can result in a reduction of psychotic and associated symptoms that are resistant to medication in chronic schizophrenia, 6 — 9 and a single trial has shown reduction of symptoms in acute schizophrenia.10 Although these trials are small and all suffer methodological limitations, particularly a lack of blind assessment, they represent encouraging evidence that cognitive behavioural interventions can have considerable benefits in reducing persistent hallucinations and delusions.

Many patients continue to experience persistent positive psychotic symptoms, hallucinations, and delusions, which are disabling and distressing.