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THE EFFECT OF TREATMENT OF A COMORBID ANXIETY DISORDER ON PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS IN A PATIENT WITH A DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA: A CASE STUDY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2002

John Good
John Good
Affiliation:
Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Exeter, UK
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Abstract

This case study deals with the effect of treatment of social phobia on psychotic symptoms in a patient with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Stress vulnerability models were used to provide a rationale for treatment. The phobia was treated using standard CBT techniques while the therapist avoided any direct treatment of the psychotic symptoms. Scores for social phobia reduced to a sub clinical level over the course of treatment and the psychotic symptoms rapidly abated. Although only a single case study and therefore impossible to generalize to a wider patient group the study would seem to suggest that treatment of comorbid anxiety disorders can effect psychotic symptoms. Some thoughts are presented as to why this might be the case.

Keywords

Psychosisneurosissocial phobiaCBT
Type
Brief Clinical Reports
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 2002 , pp. 347 - 350
Copyright
© 2002 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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