The CBT of delusional disorder

This paper reports the process, interventions, and outcome of the cognitive‐behavioural therapy of a patient who had a diagnosis of delusional disorder. The clinical features, process of therapy, and successful outcome are all discussed in relation to explanatory information processing models of delusion development and maintenance, and recent developments in formulation‐driven CBT of delusions. The implications for therapy, service development, and training are discussed. Beliefs that mediate the relationship between core schemas and delusions may form a helpful focus for early therapeutic endeavour in psychosis

Cognition · Cognitive behaviour therapy · Cognitive therapy · Content (measure theory) · Delusion · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Psychosis · Psychotherapist · Schema (genetic algorithms) · Therapeutic relationship · Vulnerability (computing) · Clinical Psychology · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications