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Elizabeth Kuipers

4 papers in the library · 299 citations · publishing 2015-2022

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The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics.

World Psychiatry June 1, 2022 Paolo Fusar‐poli, Andrés Estradé, Giovanni Stanghellini et al. 225 citations

Psychosis is the most ineffable experience of mental disorder. We provide here the first co-written bottom-up review of the lived experience of psychosis, whereby experts by experience primarily selected the subjective themes, that were subsequently enriched by phenomenologically-informed perspectives. First-person accounts within and outside the medical field were screened and discussed in...

Psychosocial predictors of distressing unusual experiences in adolescence: Testing the fit of an adult cognitive model of psychosis.

Schizophrenia Research August 27, 2021 K. Gin, Catherine Stewart, C. Abbott et al.

BACKGROUND For adults with psychosis, international guidelines recommend individual and family based cognitive behavioural therapy interventions. Recommendations are extended to children and adolescents, based on adult research. It is also recommended that psychological interventions are offered for childhood presentations of psychotic-like or Unusual Experiences (UE), in the absence of a...

Nightmares in Patients with Psychosis: The Relation with Sleep, Psychotic, Affective, and Cognitive Symptoms

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry August 1, 2015 Bryony Sheaves, Juliana Onwumere, Nadine Keen et al. 74 citations

OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of nightmares in people with psychosis and to describe the link between nightmares and sleep quality, psychotic, affective, and cognitive symptoms. METHODS: Forty participants with psychotic symptoms completed an assessment of nightmares, sleep quality, positive symptoms of psychosis, affect, posttraumatic stress, social functioning, and working memory....

Treating your worst nightmare: a case-series of imagery rehearsal therapy for nightmares in individuals experiencing psychotic symptoms

The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist 2015 Bryony Sheaves, Juliana Onwumere, Nadine Keen et al.

AbstractPrevious research has indicated that nightmares might be a common problem for people with psychotic symptoms. Furthermore, more distressing nightmares have been associated with higher levels of delusional severity, depression, anxiety, stress and working memory. However no known research has investigated the use of nightmare treatments in those with symptoms of psychosis. This study...