%A D Freeman
%A G Dunn
%A P Garety
%A J Weinman
%A E Kuipers
%A D Fowler
%A S Jolley
%A P Bebbington
%P 269 - 277
%X There is evidence that patients with schizophrenia benefit from standard cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) only if active techniques are used ('full therapy'). By contrast, attending sessions but not proceeding beyond engagement and assessment strategies ('partial therapy'), or simply not attending sessions ('no therapy'), is not associated with better outcomes. The factors leading to full therapy are unknown. We hypothesized that patients' initial ideas about the nature and extent of their problems would predict use of CBT. A match between patients' views of their problems and the principles underlying treatment would lead to better outcomes.
%T Patients' beliefs about the causes, persistence and control of psychotic experiences predict take-up of effective cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis
%K Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Analysis of Variance, Attitude to Health, Cognitive Therapy, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Outcome Assessment (Health Care), Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychotic Disorders, Questionnaires, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenic Psychology, Secondary Prevention, Young Adult
%N 2
%D 2013
%V 43
%O The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/>. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use
%J Psychological Medicine
%L discovery1377776
%C England