Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Compulsive Checking

The Obsessive – Compulsive Personality Disorder, Approached by Cognitive-behavioural Therapy

A cognitive theory of compulsive checking.

It is proposed that compulsive checking occurs when people who believe that they have a special, elevated responsibility for preventing harm, mainly to others, are unsure that the perceived threat has been reduced or removed. The intensity and duration of this checking is determined by three "multipliers": increased responsibility, probability of harm and anticipated seriousness of harm. The re...

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for psychosis.

I am writing to comment on this debate (Turkington & McKenna, 2003) from the point of view of a practising clinician who regularly works with people who are experiencing or recovering from psychotic symptoms. I find both cognitive–behavioural and psychodynamic models useful in my work. Many research practitioners have reservations about using randomised controlled trials as the main test of the...

Cognitive-behavioural therapy for schizophrenia.

for schizophrenia The Insight into Schizophrenia Research Group (Turkington et al, 2002) should be congratulated in reporting results of a large study of cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) plus educational handouts v. usual care in patients with post-acute schizophrenia. Perhaps because of space restrictions, the article leaves several important questions unanswered which it may be useful to c...

Cognitive^behavioural therapy for psychosis

I am writing to comment on this debate (Turkington & McKenna, 2003) from the point of view of a practising clinician who regularly works with people who are experiencing or recovering from psychotic symptoms. I find both cognitive–behavioural and psychodynamic models useful in my work. Many research practitioners have reservations about using randomised controlled trials as the main test of the...