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Compliance Therapy: An Intervention Targeting Insight and Treatment Adherence in Psychotic Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Roisin Kemp
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital & Institute of Psychiatry, London
Anthony David
Affiliation:
King's College Hospital & Institute of Psychiatry, London
Peter Hayward
Affiliation:
Maudsley Hospital & Institute of Psychiatry, London

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A randomized controlled trial of a new intervention based on motivational interviewing and cognitive approaches to psychosis (Compliance Therapy) has shown improvements in insight, attitudes to medication and compliance in an unselected sample of consecutively admitted patients with acute psychotic disorders. In the introduction, previous research focusing on cognitive interventions in psychosis and systematically tested psychoeducational approaches to compliance are reviewed. The content of our intervention is described with examples of the principal techniques used, together with a description of the progress of therapy in two individual cases. We conclude that the intervention is eminently applicable in the typical clinical setting.

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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1996

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