Professor Paul Chadwick, PhD, is Head of Clinical Psychology at the Royal South Hants Hospital, and Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton. He has an international reputation for his ground-breaking, applied research over the past 20 years on cognitive therapy for psychosis and is lead author on an infl uential book written with M.J. Birchwood and P. Trower - Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia, also published by John Wiley and Sons.

In this innovative text, Paul Chadwick explores a person-based cognitive therapy approach for distressing psychosis. The book describes in detail a cognitive therapy that addresses distress associated not only with the meaning given to 'symptoms', but also schemata, the self, and how people relate to voices, paranoia, etc. A clear, practical and client-centred framework is provided for clinicians, which includes:
* the use of Mindfulness for people with psychosis
* 'two chair methods', developed by the author for working with psychosis
* a detailed look at the ABC model applied to psychosis
* guidelines for working with symptomatic beliefs
* a new perspective on the therapeutic relationship and collaboration
* a new approach to case formulation based in Vygotsky's concept of the Zone of Proximal Development
* guidelines on the use of group therapy for psychosis.
Person-Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressing Psychosis is a practical and important resource for all academics and clinicians who work with people with psychosis, or have an interest in 'Third Wave' cognitive therapies.

About the Author.
Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1: Person-Based Cognitive Therapy (PBCT) for Psychosis.
Chapter 2: Relationship Building, Therapist Assumptions and Radical Collaboration.
Chapter 3: Framework for PBCT: The Zone of Proximal Development.
Chapter 4: Working with Symptomatic Meaning.
Chapter 5: Relationship to Internal Experience: Mindfulness Practice.
Chapter 6: Working with Schemata.
Chapter 7: Self-Acceptance and the Symbolic Self.
Chapter 8: PBCT Groups: Principles and Practice.
Chapter 9: Ending and the Process of Change.
Appendix: BAVQ-R.
References.
Index.