half day workshop

CBT FOR PSYCHOSIS: THEORY AND CLINICAL APPLICATION”.
Antonio Pinto, DSM ASL NA4, Italy

Princess Hotel Room: Forum

This workshop is specifically devoted to address CBT approaches to psychosis and psychotic symptoms. These techniques have been recently developed and are in general inspired by the stress vulnerability model of schizophrenia.  Among the CBT approaches, two principals strands, each with its own theoretical substrate, are actually spreading. In the first, the focus is  upon symptoms (e.g. voices) or clusters of symptoms (e.g. a psychotic episode). The second  CBT approach strand draws its theoretical strength from the cognitive therapy approach. Here the emphasis is on the similarity between normal (but strongly held) beliefs and delusional beliefs in terms of  psychological processes at play in their maintenance.  In this workshop will be showed and discussed some of the most important clinical experience on this approaches, with the aim of encouraging the diffusion of these techniques in the clinical routine and the development of new standardized instruments of assessment.

Dr. Antonio Pinto   Psychiatrist, CBT Therapist Italian Representative EABCT   During his studies he came into contact with Prof. Perris  participating  in a cross-national study for the assessment of dysfunctional workig models of self and others in severly disturbed patients. Then he was involved in the “complex treatment” of chronic schizophrenic patients,within a setting in wich atypycal antipsychotic drugs, individual CBT and the family psychoeducation method were administered at the same time. Then he has  planned and leaded the first italian randomized controlled study on CBT in a sample of chronic schizophrenic patients.The results of this study were published  on Psychiatric Services He joins in a “task force”,   of the Italian National Institute of Health with the aim to find out  optimal and Evidence Based  strategies for the cognitive behavioural treatment of hallucinations and delusions within the Public Healt Care Services. In this context he has worked and carried out, in cooperation with this research group, a self-administered questionnaire for delusions and halluciantions, submitted and accepred on 'Psychopatology'  He takes part in an International research group leaded by  Prof. Beck for the application of  new psychotherapeutic findings  with psychotic patients. He’s membership of IEPA  and he keeps in contact  with the most important european research groups on psychotherapy of psychosis. At the present time he works as psychiatrist in a Department of Menthal Health in the south of Italy. He teaches CBT of Psychosis in different italians and european CBT Schools

Key References:
Carlo Perris:'CBT of severe disturbed patients'
Kingdon , Turkington:'The Case study Guide to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychosys'
Fowler , Garety, Kuipers: 'CT of Psychosys'
Pinto A: 'Development Reliability aand validity of a Self administered Questionnaire on Subjective Opinion about Delusions and Voices'