Hallucinations: A Practical Guide to Treatment and Management - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199548595 ISBN 13: 9780199548590

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Hallucinations are a troublesome and distressing symptom for countless patients who suffer from psychiatric or neurological conditions. In recent years, a number of new treatment strategies have been developed to help patients suffering from these symptoms.

This book brings together the work of leading experts in this area, to provide a practical guide to the assessment, evaluation, and treatment of hallucinations. It includes a range of interventions, including: Pharmacological, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Hallucinations focused Integrative Therapy (HIT), normalizing techniques, coping strategies, self-help approaches, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attention Training Technique, Competitive Memory Training, appraisal-based cognitive therapy, and cognitive therapy for command hallucinations. As well as providing practical advice, the chapters also contain overviews of the respective areas of research, including references to the evidence base for each intervention - highlighting those interventions in need of more empirical support. Each chapter describes how to evaluate and treat the patient, often using clinical vignettes or case studies to illustrate the treatment process.

The book will be a valuable guide for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, and counsellors, increasingly required to help patients suffering from these distressing symptoms.

About this title

About the Author

Frank Laroi obtained his BSc from the University of Bath, England; his degree in clinical psychology from the University of Oslo, Norway; and his PhD from the University of Liege, Belgium. In addition to hallucinations, his research interests include schizophrenia, delusions, cognitive remediation, awareness of illness, and emotional processing in psychopathology. Andre Aleman is professor of cognitive neuropsychiatry at the University of Groningen. He obtained his MSc and PhD in neuropsychology from the University of Utrecht. In addition to hallucinations, his research interests include the cognitive and neural bases of emotional processing in psychopathology.

Review

In short, Hallucinations: A Guide to Treatment and Management meets its goal. It offers a comprehensive review of a 'traditional' symptom that mobilizes basic and clinical research and generates model building, reviews current treament modalities, and looks confidently at the future." -- Renato D. Alarcon, MD, MPH, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Volume 200, Number 3

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199548595
• ISBN 13: 9780199548590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 418
• Editor: Laroi Frank, Aleman Andre