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COGNITIVE THERAPY IN EARLY PSYCHOSIS: A PILOT RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2004

Suzanne Jolley
Affiliation:
St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Philippa Garety
Affiliation:
St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Tom Craig
Affiliation:
St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Graham Dunn
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, UK
Jo White
Affiliation:
Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK
Melissa Aitken
Affiliation:
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

Abstract

A pilot RCT of cognitive therapy (CT; based on Fowler, Garety, and Kuipers, 1995) for early psychosis adjunctive to treatment as usual (TAU) compared to TAU alone is presented. Recruitment is problematic and numbers are small. Levels of symptomatology are low at baseline; and both CT (n = 12) and TAU (n = 9) groups improve, with few significant group differences and high levels of individual variation. This pattern is common to other studies (Jackson et al., 1998; Lewis et al., 2002). The body of evidence to date seems to suggest that CT for early psychosis is not strongly indicated as an adjunctive treatment for all people with early psychosis, but should perhaps focus on the sub-group of patients whose recovery is incomplete.

Type
Brief Clinical Reports
Copyright
© 2003 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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