full day workshop

STAYING WELL AFTER PSYCHOSIS: A COGNITIVE INTERPERSONAL APPROACH TO RELAPSE PREVENTION AND EMOTIONAL RECOVERY
Andrew Gumley, University of Glasgow, UK and Matthias Schwannauer, University of Edinburgh, UK

Princess Hotel Room: Princess 1/2

This workshop on staying well after psychosis presents an individually based psychological intervention targeting emotional recovery and relapse prevention. Our approach considers the cognitive, interpersonal and developmental aspects involved in recovery and vulnerability to the recurrence of psychosis. The workshop will outline an overall psychological framework for developing individually tailored strategies for case formulation, recovery and staying well that primarily focus on emotional and interpersonal adaptation to psychosis. This approach incorporates: 1. a developmental perspective on help seeking and affect regulation, 2. strategies to support self reorganisation and adaptation after acute psychosis, 3. understanding and treating traumatic reactions to psychosis, 4. working with feelings of humiliation, entrapment, loss and fear of recurrence appraisals during recovery, 5. working with cognitive interpersonal schemata, and 6. developing coping in an interpersonal context.

Andrew Gumley is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the University of Glasgow and Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist at ESTEEM: North Glasgow Early Intervention Service. Matthias Schwannauer is Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh and Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the Adolescent Onset Psychosis Service in Edinburgh.

Key References:
Gumley A, O'Grady, M, McNay, L, Reilly, J, Power, K & Norrie, J (2003). Early intervention for relapse in schizophrenia: results of a 12-month randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioural therapy. Psychological Medicine,  33, 419-431. 
Gumley AI & Schwannauer M. (2006) Staying well after psychosis: a cognitive interpersonal approach to recovery and relapse prevention. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.