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A randomised controlled pilot study of Experience Focused Counselling with voice hearers

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  • Joachim Schnackenberg
  • Mick Fleming
  • Colin R. Martin

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Background: There is a need for improved psychosocial interventions for distressed voice hearers.Aims: To evaluate a novel approach to hearing voices: Experience Focused Counselling (EFC) aka Making Sense of Voices.Study design and methods: Twelve voice hearers were randomly assigned to a 44-week EFC or Treatment As Usual intervention as part of a pilot study design.Results: At the end of intervention, EFC showed clinically large treatment effect improvements on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale – Expanded Version psychotic symptoms (Cohen’s d=1.6) and overall psychopathology domains (d=1.3), and the Psychotic Symptom Rating Scales voices (d=1) and delusions (aka non-shared reality) (d=1) scales. EFC voice hearers also felt more able to do first trauma disclosures (n=4) than TAU group voice hearer (n=1).Discussion: EFC improvements may have been related to the focus on reducing voices-related distress. EFC holds some promise as a safe and effective intervention for voice hearers, with possible improvements in general psychopathology, psychosis, voices and non-shared reality (aka delusions)-related distress. This will need replicating in more powerful studies.

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  • Joachim Schnackenberg & Mick Fleming & Colin R. Martin, 2017. "A randomised controlled pilot study of Experience Focused Counselling with voice hearers," Psychosis, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(1), pages 12-24, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpsyxx:v:9:y:2017:i:1:p:12-24
    DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2016.1185452
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