Behavioural Psychotherapy

Table of Contents - 1992 - Volume 20, Issue 01  

Clinical Section

Coping Tactics and the Management of Acutely Distressed Schizophrenic Patients

Heidi Allena1 and Carol Bassa2

a1 Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow

a2 Ealing Hospital, London

Two patients with florid symptoms and severely disturbed behaviours were treated with a cognitive-behavioural programme. The programme aimed to facilitate the patients' and their carers' ability to adaptively cope with the distress generated by the patients' florid symptoms. Both patients actively co-operated and responded with a marked reduction in symptoms and behavioural disturbance.

Footnotes

Reprint requests to Dr Heidi Allen, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Department of Clinical Psychology-, Northwick Park Hospital, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3UJ, UK.

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