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Behaviour Therapy and Schizophrenia: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2014

W. Kim Halford
W. Kim Halford*
Affiliation:
University of Queenslandand Royal Brisbane Hospital
*
Department of Psychiatry, University of Queensland, Clinical Sciences Building, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston OLD 4029, Australia
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Abstract

This brief article introduces a two-part series of special issues of Behaviour Change on the cognitive-behavioural treatment of schizophrenia. Two pervasive myths about schizophrenia inhibit effective psychological treatment and rehabilitation: (1) that schizophrenia inevitably has poor outcome, and (2) that drugs are effective in the management of schizophrenia. Neither of these myths is supported by available data. A stress–vulnerability model is described which provides a framework for understanding the variability in outcome of schizophrenia, and for conducting cognitive-behaviour therapy.

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Special Issue: Behaviour Therapy and Schizophrenia — Part One
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Behaviour Change , Volume 11 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Behaviour Therapy and Schizophrenia – Part One , December 1994 , pp. 195 - 199
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1994

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