Sentences with phrase «reducing psychotic symptoms»

At discharge the patient can be well, have full mental capacity, with greatly reduced psychotic symptoms, or even none at all.

She says a small, unpublished study done by her group has shown that brain training for people in the early stages of schizophrenia reduced psychotic symptoms.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Giving cognitive behaviour therapy in addition to routine care reduced positive psychotic symptoms more than giving routine care alone

The following hypotheses were tested: that the cognitive behaviour therapy would be superior to supportive counselling and routine care, and routine care alone, firstly, in reducing positive psychotic symptoms; secondly, in preventing the exacerbation of positive symptoms and reducing hospital stay; and, thirdly, by using the convention of the previous study of 50 % improvement in positive symptoms as an indicator of considerable clinical improvement, 6 in the number of patients achieving such improvement.