The Staff Views About Assessing Voices Questionnaire: Piloting a Novel Socratic Method of Evaluating and Training Multidisciplinary Staff's Cognitive Assessment of Patients' Distressing Voices

Cognitive features of auditory hallucinations (voices) have important clinical significance and their assessment is vital for cognitive behavior therapy to be more widely deployed by multidisciplinary staff. Using a new Socratic instrument—The Staff Views About Assessing Voices Questionnaire (SVAVQ)—we surveyed community inpatient rehabilitation workforce's ( N = 50) attitude toward asking questions about patients' voices. We found that there were many clinically gaps in what staff asked relation identified range beliefs the hold may prevent voice features. However, after attending SVAVQ interview, 84% said they planned ask patients Research could now test if other psychosis services neglect voices questioning improves assessments.