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CBT is a Winner

    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Reduces Suicidal Ideation in Schizophrenia: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 37(3) June 2007
Patients with schizophrenia are at high risk of suicide. Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) has been shown to reduce symptoms in schizophrenia. This study examines whether CBT also changes the level of suicidal ideation [...]

Suicide hits the Headlines

  Two current articles from the journal Suicide and Life Threating Behaviour
If you would like the full-text of these articles emailing to you please email – susan.jennings@lancashirecare.nhs.uk
Suicide prevention in the psychiatric hospital – Matakas, Frank
Suicide and Life-threatening Behavior, 2007, 37(5) p. 507-517

This is  a discussion of a treatment strategy that differentiates between regressive and [...]

CBT and OCD

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder, Veale, D – Advances in Psychiatric Treatment November 2007 Vol 13(6), p438-446
Abstract In the UK, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence’s guidelines on obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) recommend cognitive–behavioural therapy, including exposure and response prevention, as an effective treatment for the disorder. This article introduces a cognitive–behavioural model [...]