Talking With Voices: Investigating the Efficacy of a Novel Treatment Strategy for Auditory Hallucinations Targeted at Trauma-Related Mechanisms
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Date & Time
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Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Explain potential links between the content/characteristics of voices and distressing events in the life of the voice-hearer.
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Summarize the growing evidence-base for using relational therapies to support distressed voice-hearers.
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Describe the value of incorporating trauma-focussed frameworks within clinical practice when supporting people who hear voices.
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Explain how clinical models of dissociation may be applied to therapeutic work with those of a diagnosis of psychosis/schizophrenia.
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Identify the value of including those with lived experience of mental health difficulties in the design and implementation of both research and clinical services.
Educational Goal
The educational goal of this workshop is to provide an overview of the Talking the Voices intervention.
Description
Although hearing voices can occur widely in an absence of mental health problems, the experience is also reported by up to 75% of those diagnosed with schizophrenia and can lead to extreme distress and disruption. This presentation will provide an overview of Talking With Voices, a recent randomized control trial which aimed to establish the feasibility and acceptability of using psychological formulation and direct dialogue to attempt to create a more peaceful, constructive relationship between hearer and voice. The intervention’s clinical and conceptual background will be discussed, including the role of co-production in mental health research and the influence of the Hearing Voices Movement, with an overview provided of future steps for developing an evidence base for Talking With Voices in terms of its clinical efficacy.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Psychologist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Eleanor Longden, PhD is a Postdoctoral Service User Research Manager at the Psychosis Research Unit at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH), honorary Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester, and co-director of GMMH’s Complex Trauma and Resilience Research Unit. Throughout her career, she has drawn on her own experiences of recovery from trauma and psychosis to promote person-centered approaches to complex mental health problems that emphasize the lived experience and expertise of service-users. Her research focuses on the relationship between dissociation, trauma, and voice-hearing, and she has lectured and published internationally on these issues.
Financially Sponsored By
- APA Division 18: Psychologists in Public Service